More than 7,000 individual and corporate volunteers will converge on 63 project sites on the morning of Saturday, October 5, 2013 to tackle some of Atlanta’s most pressing needs during the 23rd Annual Hands On Atlanta Day. Under this year’s theme of “I Left My Mark”, volunteers will work on projects at schools, parks, and non-profits doing work ranging from building restoration to tutoring to landscaping to mentoring. For the first time, this year there will also be a video contest to allow volunteers to show how they are actively leaving their mark on Atlanta. The best entries will be shown on handsonatlanta.organd social media pages.
“Our goals beyond the immediate work of the day are to really ignite a passion for volunteerism that lasts throughout the year, and ultimately to create many lifelong community volunteers” said Hands on Atlanta CEO Gina Simpson.
Notable projects among the 63 in place for Hands On Atlanta Day include:
· Friends of English Avenue (550 Lindsay Street, Atlanta 30314) – Volunteers including Mayor Kasim Reed will come together to cleanup and landscape the two-mile parade route in the English Avenue community.
· Covenant House of Georgia (1559 Johnson Rd NW, Atlanta, 30318) – Delta Air Lines employees and Force For Global Good volunteers will gather at this local nonprofit that helps homeless children find new hope. Mayor Reed will also be at this location.
· Golden Living Center-Briarwood, Volunteer Spotlight: Billie Pendleton-Parker (3888 Lavista Road, Tucker, GA 30084) – Golden Living Center-Briarwood is a nursing care facility supporting seniors with round-the-clock care, social activities, and rehabilitation services. As longtime volunteer Billie Parker said, “It’s because of the care that the “angels” working there bestowed upon me that I regained my strength, appetite, ability to walk, my desire to thrive.”
For more information and ways to get involved with Hands On Atlanta Day, visit www.handsonatlanta.org/hoad2013 or call (404) 979-2800.
