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"Everybody can be great
because everybody can serve." - Dr.King
During the
week of Saturday, January
16 - January 23, 2010 Hands On Sacramento
celebrated our sixth annual
Martin Luther KING
Day of Service with 35 non-profit agencies to
complete 39 different service projects!
On January 18, 2010, we celebrated
the 27th anniversary of the Martin Luther King
Jr. holiday, a nationally recognized day of
citizen action volunteer service. Thousands of
Americans remembered and celebrated Dr. King
by participating in service projects across the
nation. Together, we honored King’s legacy of
unity, peace, and equality by making the holiday
A DAY ON, NOT A DAY OFF.
Hands On Sacramento would like to thank all our
volunteers for making this event a huge success!
Even with the largest storm passing through
California in 10 years, our volunteers were not
deterred! We still had over 1700 volunteers
participate in 39 service projects
all week, making this MLK Day of Service the
largest in Sacramento ever!
Volunteers made a huge impact helping
organizations that provide direct social
services to underprivileged youth, seniors, the
homeless population, and the environment. In the
course of just one week, 6,932 hours of
community service were completed! We were able
to renovate nine community centers, five
schools, seven environmental spaces and spruced
up twenty one other community resources. Nearly
7,500 disadvantaged youth were served, 39
neighborhoods improved and over 100,000 adults
and seniors will benefit from these projects!
We also had the great pleasure to have Mayor
Kevin Johnson kick-off the event at the morning
celebration at Quinn Cottages, where he
continued the morning working with volunteers at
Loaves and Fishes. We received coverage from
News10, KCRA, FOX40, The Sacramento Bee, and
Capital Public Radio, KXPR, KXJZ, FKBK radio
stations.
Sacramento was granted the privilege of being
chosen as one of seven cities across the nation
to participate in a live national webcast
sponsored by Hands On Network called MLK Day
Virtual Town Hall, featuring service
projects throughout the nation starting in
Atlanta, to New York City to Washington D.C. to
Sacramento! Our very own Congresswoman Doris
Matsui
participated in this live webcast as she
volunteered at a school in Washington, D.C.
Dr. King sought to forge the common ground on
which people from all walks of life could join
together to address important community issues.
Working alongside individuals of all ages, races
and backgrounds, Dr. King encouraged Americans
to come together to strengthen communities,
alleviate poverty, and acknowledge dignity and
respect for all human beings. Service, he
believed, was the great equalizer. So, thank you
Sacramento for serving our community!
To view photo's from service projects across the
nation,
click here.
If you missed the live Virtual Town Hall, you can view it
here.
Again,
thank you to our wonderful volunteers and
community partners! With your hard work and
dedication, together we were able to make a
difference!
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