Volunteers Help At 17 Baltimore Sites for Civic Works’ Ricky Myers Day Of Service

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Hundreds of volunteers turned retired for the Civic Works 19th yearly Ricky Myers Day of Service, helping astatine 17 antithetic sites astir the metropolis Saturday.

“It’s a large mode for volunteers who privation to travel out, you know, get their hands dirty,” said Dana Stein, enforcement manager of Civic Works.

This year, due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fig of volunteers was capped astatine 200, alternatively of the accustomed 500.

Eight-year-old Braylin Montague was 1 of those volunteers. She and different young women successful the mentorship program, The Charm School Project for Girls, were helping cleanable Mother’s Garden, successful Clifton Park.

“We’re fundamentally gardening around, and pulling weeds out, and we’re trying to conscionable cleanable up,” Braylin said.

Seeing the young volunteers was truly encouraging, said Jasmine Allen, co-founder of The Charm School Project for Girls.

“(It is) highly important to commencement teaching girls astatine a precise young age, oregon kids successful wide astatine a precise young age, to beryllium stewards of their community, to besides thatch them the value of upkeep connected their community, it conscionable helps them beryllium bully citizens erstwhile they get older,” Allen said. “It’s truly inspirational. It gives maine a batch of anticipation for the future.”

This year’s time of work besides offered virtual options, with radical moving astatine location making blankets and penning letters to seniors.

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Young women with @TheGirlsClub_ are among the 200 radical who volunteered during the @CivicWorksInc Annual Ricky Myers Day of Service. pic.twitter.com/QFeI7ZOvUu

— Sean Streicher (@SeanStreicher) October 2, 2021