Dartmouth freshmen take part in Youth Day of Caring
Twenty students from Dartmouth High School volunteered during United Way's annual Youth Day of Caring. Source: Kristianna Callahan
Students Gabe Chambers, Chase Amaral, Jamiya Carrasquillo, Narda Mballa, Sonia Mballa, and Adrianna Mukona put the final touches on the Cougars enclosure scheduled to open soon.
Students filled over 100 bags with leaves.
146 students from across the South Coast participated in the event.
Twenty students from Dartmouth High School volunteered during United Way's annual Youth Day of Caring. Source: Kristianna Callahan
Students Gabe Chambers, Chase Amaral, Jamiya Carrasquillo, Narda Mballa, Sonia Mballa, and Adrianna Mukona put the final touches on the Cougars enclosure scheduled to open soon.
Students filled over 100 bags with leaves.
146 students from across the South Coast participated in the event.
NEW BEDFORD — Twenty Dartmouth High School freshmen headed to Buttonwood Park Zoo on Friday, May 8 to take part in the annual Youth Day of Caring, organized by The United Way of Greater New Bedford.
At the zoo, students cleaned benches, filled up over 100 bags of leaves and completed other general maintenance work to support the zoo, said Kristianna Callahan, a social worker at Dartmouth High School.
This is the first year Dartmouth students took part in the Youth Day of Caring, an event Callahan has been wanting to get involved in for the past few years.
In the fall Callahan reached out to United Way, which mobilizes people, partnerships and resources to strengthen Greater New Bedford.
“The kids loved it, so something we’re definitely going to continue a partnership with,” Callahan said.
She added it was “really nice to see” that the students enjoyed volunteering for the event.
In total, 146 students volunteered for the event from schools across the South Coast.
While this year the volunteer opportunity was only open to freshmen, Callahan said she wants to find a way to involve more students in the future.
“Teenagers really do want to help,” Callahan said. “They just need the opportunity to be presented to them and they step up.”
