
Thousands of UC Berkeley students fanned out across the city on Saturday to participate in the university’s largest day of service.
The students sanded, painted, pulled non-indigenous plants at Tilden Park, and beautified sidewalks in downtown Berkeley, among many other activities.
The volunteer effort was run by The Berkeley Project, created in 2006 by students and completely student-operated. The Berkeley Project, according to its mission statement, not only provides powerful assistance to the public, but aims to create “a lasting culture of service-learning among its participants” and to “permanently change the relationship between the students and residents of Berkeley through hands-on community service.”


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