Green Up Day Photos - Jericho, Underhill, Richmond

 

Maggie Swanke (Faculty Liaison) connected the MMU Global Service Club with the Jericho Green Up Day on May 1st dividing it into 3 teams; one for Underhill, one for Jericho, and one for Richmond.

Photos provided by Maggie. 

Nature gets a welcome helping hand, actually many hands helping to maintain 

her beautiful and inviting habitat.

You take the high road, I'll take the low road, 

we will meet at the junction of Clean & Green Vermont.

                       The call went out for help and the folks in the

               MMU Global Service Club sprang to action.

The MMU Global Service Club is students interested in Global volunteerism, intercultural experiences, and using their time, energy, and efforts to positively impact people and places in need. In the past we have traveled to Tanzania, Africa to build cisterns, to the Dominican Republic for environmental work, Operation Restoration; to Ecuador to provide sustainable agricultural support in a mountain community, to Morocco to help build a school. 

In 2020 MMUGSC focused on 'Helping at Home', participating in various local service projects: a Mills Riverside Park Project Day, 'Random Acts of Raking' for local senior citizens, JOY Baskets for Mansfield Place Senior Citizens, Valentines Cookie Decorating Kits for Spectrum and ANEW Place, a free Community Easter Egg Hunt, and, of course Green Up Day. We hope to return to the international scene and are planning 'Construction in Cairo' #Egypt2022 to work at an international peace center as well as a small village school.

The Green Up Day went FANTASTIC!! As you can see we had 15 of our members participate at 3 different sites across the district! Lots of strange finds and green bags filled!!

Maggie

Got Masks. 

Got Green Up Bags. 

Got Great Volunteers.

Clean water is a must for fish, amphibians, birds, mammals, people. 

Thank You for slogging in

and taking the trash out!

                                    We found lots of litter and loads of fun. 

                                  Green & Clean Mission Accomplished!

 

Green Up Message from Bernie: 

Plastic often becomes litter, entering many natural environments including our waterways and eventually the oceans. As it breaks down to microplastics fish and other marine animals as well as birds, turtles, and other creatures ingest it or get tangled in larger pieces of plastic.

Consider sending emails or snail mail to manufacturers telling them that you want their products, not their plastic. Ask them to offer alternatives to plastic. Recycling is not sufficient to keep plastics out of our natural environments. For more information and to see a sample letter visit my "End Plastic Food Packaging" post at  https://litterwithastorytotell.blogspot.com/2019/01/end-plastic-food-packaging.html

Thank You for helping keep Vermont Green & Clean!

& Thank You G.U.D. Sponsors

Bernie