More than a dozen students and volunteers from Atlantic Cape Community College’s Student Engagement and Student Government Association took part in the 21st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service event on January 20 at Stockton University’s Galloway campus.
Atlantic Cape sponsored two service projects – creating thank you cards for local first responders and care package kits complete with a warm winter beanie, two pairs of warm gloves and two granola bars for volunteers at Funny Farm Rescue Animal Sanctuary in Mays Landing.
“It was important for us to collaborate with Stockton University for today’s Day of Service event in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call to action, which was serving your community and loving others while doing so,” said Samantha Adelman, student engagement specialist, Atlantic Cape.
In one of the many breakout rooms utilized for the Day of Service, volunteers gathered around a long collection of tables and wrote personalized messages of thanks for our local policemen/women, firefighters and emergency medical service professionals, adorned them with inspirational stickers on colorful notecards, and stuffed them into equally colorful envelopes.
The Day of Service festivities, held in partnership with Stockton University’s Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning, began as hundreds of volunteers from Atlantic Cape and Stockton, as well as local high schools, middle schools and clubs filled the Campus Center Event Room to listen to introductory remarks from speakers and each of the other campus locations hosting volunteering events.
“Thank you so much for volunteering today and being a part of this great day,” said Dr. Joe Bertolino, president, Stockton University. “We are really excited that you are here today and I appreciate you coming out on this cold day. I hope that you are ready to get some work done and take some action today.”
More than 20 projects were untaken by more than 900 volunteers at Stockton’s Galloway, Atlantic City, Hammonton and Woodbine campuses this year.
View a photo gallery of this event on Flickr here.
Visit atlanticcape.edu/sga to learn more about Atlantic Cape’s Student Government Association.
