Last
week, brothers of the Florida Chapter coordinated with our current pledge class
to conduct our first road clean up of the year!
We clean our road (which we adopted through the local Adopt-A-Street
program) at least six times a year, so brothers are quite familiar with the
process. It was fun to be able to
introduce some of the pledge class to what has become a service tradition for
our chapter!
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On
Saturday, February 21st, the Florida Chapter participated in Project
Makeover. Project Makeover is a
student-run nonprofit at the University of Florida that chooses an elementary
school in Alachua County to makeover each year.
The projects are focused on improving the learning environment for
students, whether it is through grounds beautification or the introduction of
new learning tools. This year's school
was Metcalfe Elementary, and the overarching theme of the project was
"play". Our time at Project
Makeover was spent beautifying one of the school's playgrounds. We raked up bags and bags of leaves and pine needles, and we collected pine cones to be used for art projects. Project Makeover was a perfect way to get
connected to the community in a way we hadn't before, and we look forward to
participating again in the future to help improve local education where we can.
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On
Saturday, February 7th, brothers from the Florida Chapter spent the morning at
Wilmot Gardens. Wilmot Gardens is a 5
acre area located on campus. The garden
serves the UF community as well as the patients receiving care at the Shands
Medical Plaza adjacent to campus. Wilmot
Gardens is currently undergoing a restoration project that is focused on creating
healing and meditation areas. During our
service at Wilmot Gardens, we helped with ground and plant maintenance for
areas included in the restoration project.
The weather was beautiful, and we enjoyed getting our hands dirty while
contributing to a garden with such a great mission for our community!
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For
the first two weeks of the semester, brothers from the Florida Chapter
participated in a shoe drive run by a UF student organization called Just Shoe
It. Throughout the year, Just Shoe It
conducts several shoe collections, each focused on a different group of recipients. For this collection, all donations went to local
blueberry workers in need of sneakers or work boots. It was great to be able to support
local community members in agriculture!
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The
Florida Chapter’s final service event of the semester occurred on Saturday,
December 6th with Habitat for Humanity. To build homes for families in need, Alachua
Habitat relies on the generosity of community members in the form of donations
and volunteer labor. For
our service event, we spent the day on a Habitat for Humanity build site helping
complete various construction tasks for a house in progress. Knowing that our efforts of the day contributed
to helping provide for a family in our community was very rewarding and well
worth the sweat!
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At
our chapter meeting the week before Thanksgiving, the Florida Chapter held a
donation drive to benefit the St. Francis House. St. Francis House offers aid to those in our
community who are less fortunate or without homes, whether it be through their
soup kitchen, transitional housing program, or job placement services. In just one chapter meeting, our brothers
donated almost 100 canned goods and non-perishable food items, which we were
able to deliver to the St. Francis House just in time for Thanksgiving!
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The
road that the Florida Chapter adopted through Gainesville’s Adopt-A-Street program
got quite a few visits from us this semester, and we plan to continue that
routine in the new year! Our last road
clean up was held on November 13th, and we had a great time getting
to know each other better while helping to keep the road and shoulder clean and
safer for pedestrians.
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The
Florida Chapter volunteered at the Alachua County Humane Society twice more
this semester, once in October and once in November. Just as our first trip to the Humane Society
this semester, brothers had a great time playing with the animals while doing
some cleaning and housekeeping. The
Humane Society loves the extra help, and we are always more than happy to do
what we can! Olivia, one of our
brothers, put it best when she said, “So glad to have been able to spend the
morning with my brothers and so many special little critters. I’m so glad that Alpha Zeta took me in and
that we get to do such amazing things within our community.”
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