About 6,500 new UCLA students are hitting the streets of Los Angeles Monday to do good deeds.
Incoming freshman and transfer students, along with staffers, parents and alumni, are sorting food donations, helping out veterans and senior citizens, distributing donated school and dental supplies, maintaining hiking trails and painting and patching up public buildings and parks, among other things at more than 40 cites in Los Angeles.
New bruins jump into 6th annual @UCLA Volunteer Day with some fresh threads #BruinsGiveBack http://t.co/6ok5CagKBh pic.twitter.com/cJYS1Gp5Lm
— UCLA Newsroom (@UCLAnewsroom) September 29, 2014
Volunteer Day, organized by the school’s Volunteer Center, is part of Chancellor Gene Block’s agenda for making UCLA known for its involvement in its surrounding community and greater Los Angeles. Already, more than half of the university’s undergraduates participate in some form of community service, a spokesperson said.
— Staff and wire reports