Youth Paint Rooms and Pack Food Boxes to Help Community

Contact: Shelley Szafraniec, APR, CPRC
(706) 327-3255 ext. 202

WHO / WHAT

Six high school students are painting two rooms at the Muscogee County Autism Hope Center. An additional 20 middle school students, with adults leaders, will pack food boxes at the Feeding the Valley Food Bank.

WHEN / WHERE

Students will paint the center from 5 - 9 p.m., Friday, April 23, at the Muscogee County Autism Hope Center. The center is on the south campus of Columbus Technical College, 928 Manchester Expressway, Columbus. Students will pack food boxes from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m., Saturday, April 24, at the Feeding the Valley Food Bank, 5928 Coca Cola Blvd., Columbus.

WHY

Youth from the Chattahoochee Valley are invited to reach out in their communities to make a difference during the two-day Students Care Day campaign. Project planning tool kits, service-learning curriculum guides, and other resources are available at Youth Service America’s web site, www.YSA.org.

The United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley improves lives and builds a stronger community by bringing people and resources together. Your United Way has 26 partner agencies and funds 50 programs that serve residents of Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Stewart, Talbot and Taylor counties in Georgia and Russell County in Alabama.


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