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Laney High School Plans Community Garden

WHO: Laney High School's Growing Youth ‘n Living Color group, students, and staff members, and community members

WHAT: Student, staff, and community volunteers of all ages will be working together to create the Laney Community Garden. Volunteers will be shoveling dirt and mulch, putting in landscape timbers, planting flowers, watering plants, spreading mulch, and picking up trash related to the project. All of this is possible through a Learn and Serve America grant Laney was awarded for the 2007-2008 school year in the amount of $14,017 to implement community gardens in New Hanover County.

WHEN: Global Youth Service Day, Saturday, April 26, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. to 12 noon

WHERE: Laney High School, 2700 N. College Road

HOW: Supplies for gardening and the clean up have been purchased with Learn and Serve funding and donated from local businesses in support of the Laney Growing Youth ‘n Living Color project.

WHY: America’s young people - from kindergartners to university students - have the desire, energy and ability to make a real difference in their communities. Service-learning offers a unique opportunity for them to get involved in a tangible way by integrating community service projects with classroom learning. Service-learning engages students in the educational process, using what they learn in the classroom to solve real-life problems. Students not only learn about democracy and citizenship, they become actively contributing citizens and community members through the service they perform.

BACKGROUND: Learn and Serve America supports and encourages service-learning throughout the United States, and enables over one million students to make meaningful contributions to their community while building their academic and civic skills. By engaging our nation’s young people in service-learning, Learn and Serve America instills an ethic of lifelong community service. More information can be found at: www.learnandserve.org

Global Youth Service Day is the largest annual celebration of young volunteers, where millions of young people in countries everywhere highlight and carry out thousands of community improvement projects. GYSD offers a way for local, national, and international organizations to:

• PROMOTE youth participation, service and learning;

• EDUCATE the public, the media, and policy-makers about the contributions of young people as community leaders around the world; and

• MOBILIZE youth and adults to meet the needs of their communities.
  More information about Global Youth Service Day can be found at: www.gysd.net

CONTACT: For more information on the Global Youth Service Day project or Laney Growing Youth activities and service learning, contact Gail Kays at 350-2089 ext. 435 or Beth Keller at 350-2089 ext. 439.

 

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4/25/08