Community Service News

Give 100 Team Reaches 67 Members

There are now 67 members of the Give 100 team. Sixteen have received their first daisy at the Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon on April 16th. Kudos are extended to Jeanette Lesinski on completing over 120 hours of service in the first quarter of 2008. Jaye is actively involved with Scouting. Please don’t forget to log your hours of service using the community service reporting form. Our next recognition will be held on October 16, 2008 in Sacred Heart Chapel at 12:15 PM.

D’Youville is Committed to Caring

What a grand and glorious day of service we had on April 23rd! There were 268 volunteers and over 650 hours of community service. Our students, faculty and staff were spread out in our neighborhood and in 3 agencies: Habitat for Humanity, West Side Community Service and Hispanics United of Buffalo. We not only made a difference, we made an IMPACT! Thank you one and all who participated.

Every Day is a good day to Volunteer

A list of summer volunteer opportunities is available to you on the Campus Ministry Community Service web page. Please don’t forget to send a community service report form found online to Campus Ministry when you complete your service. We are trying to reach 10,000 hours of community service in 2008! Every hour counts!

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY

Reprinted from the Catalyst – May 2008

HABITAT VOLUNTEERS ARE AWESOME! Since February 2nd, D’Youville volunteers have been working hard at our Centennial Habitat House at 314 Vermont. Eleven Saturdays, one service retreat and the Day of Caring combined to bring 175 DYC students, staff, faculty and alumni together for an amazing rehab adventure! In total 850 hours were logged by our volunteers! For some of us, our involvement in this project was a course requirement. But for most it only took those first couple of hours and we were hooked!

Rehabilitating an old house is more work than building new but that didn’t deter our hardy work crews. From that very first Saturday in February, when the snow was falling outside and there was no heat or water inside, everyone pitched right in to work together. Walls and ceilings were torn down, nails were pulled from studs, old insulation taken out, a back room was completely removed, siding was taken off, a gas-line run, the old furnace system was removed and the yard cleaned up. By the time deconstruction was complete, the house was looking more like it had when originally built, with the front room opened up and an extra staircase removed. Work has recently begun to construct ‘new’ – a new roof and new windows have been installed, new insulation has been put in, foundation work has begun, electricity has been restored and the front porch is being replaced.

There are many more volunteer hours of work still to be done. While our participation will slow down during the summer sessions, there is still opportunity to volunteer. For those who wish to work on any given summer day, please contact Virginia Leigh, Habitat volunteer coordinator, at 741-3079. Also check your DYC email for announcements of possible D’Youville summer work days. This semester the D’Youville Community proved itself to be truly committed to fulfilling the college mission ~ by compassionately, productively and responsibly serving our West Side neighborhood while volunteering at our Centennial Habitat house.