Habitat for Humanity, Garden Station and Possum Creek MetroPark will be involved with Make a Difference Day. As a nationally recognized project, Make a Difference Day reaches out farther than Sinclair.
At least three projects will be available to students as volunteer opportunities for Make a Difference Day. They will be held outside of campus on Oct. 26 and 27.
Upon signing up, volunteers will meet up at the location of where their event will be held and at the time that they signed up for. Faculty Associate for Service Learning David Bodary said that if people sign up quickly enough, they will receive a free t-shirt from the United Way of Greater Dayton.
Eight volunteers are needed to help build a habitat house for Habitat for Humanity. The event will be held on Friday, Oct. 26. Volunteers can choose to help from either 8:30 a.m. to noon, or 12:30 to 4 p.m. Those that choose to help will assist in drywall installation and painting. The habitat house is located at 1004 Woodley Rd., Dayton, Ohio 45403.
Garden Station Community Garden and Art Park is looking for 25 volunteers for building garden beds as well as help in other garden-related maintenance. The volunteer work will be available on Friday Oct. 26 and Saturday Oct. 27. Shifts will be three hours long, from 9 a.m. to noon or from 1 to 4 p.m. The Garden Station is located at 509 East Fourth St. Dayton, Ohio 45402.
Possum Creek MetroPark is looking for volunteers to help clean out seasonal bluebird boxes as well as foot trail tidying. Up to 10 helpers are needed for the volunteer opportunity. It will be held on Saturday Oct. 27. From 9 a.m. to noon. Possum Creek is located at 4790 Frytown Rd. Dayton, Ohio 45417.
Created by USA Weekend Magazine, Make a Difference Day is in partnership with Join Hands Miami Valley. It is held every year during the fourth weekend in October.
“It’d be a new experience perhaps for people, or also a way to share a particular skill that they have as well,” said Bodary.
Those that are interested in volunteering in any of the projects can contact Bodary at 512-2572 by Oct. 5.
Wright State University as well as University of Dayton are also involved with Make A Difference Day, however, the projects will be separate.
“I think some of the reasons that they might take an interest is that it’s an opportunity for us to kind of give back to the community,” said Bodary. “It’s also a really cool way of kind of becoming familiar with some things that might not be familiar to you.”