In another project, Adahlia Lewis, a building coordinator on the staff of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis, led a small team that painted rooms inside of the Piedmont Court Appointed Special Advocates’ Charlottesville office.
“It was something our O’Neil Hall team felt capable of doing and it seemed a great way to lend our support to their mission,” Lewis said. “We love the idea of freeing up their time and energy so the Piedmont CASA team can focus on their critical work to support and advocate for children in our community.”
On a make-up date to be determined, Holly Robertson, who serves as exhibitions coordinator for the UVA Library, will be leading a project with Library colleague Jeff Hill on the Moormans River benefitting a pair of organizations: the Thomas Jefferson Chapter of Trout Unlimited and Therapeutic Adventures. The project will be geared toward creating a better habitat for trout and improved access to the river for people with disabilities.
Robertson and Hill are looking forward to spending time on the river when the weather cooperates better than it did on Wednesday.
“It’s always nice to be outside,” Robertson said. “We, in the library, are typically interior people, and it’s always wonderful to work with community organizations around Charlottesville whose needs we can meet within a day. It’s pretty amazing what you can do within a day.”
For many UVA teams, the Day of Caring is more than just one day. There are numerous projects that continue throughout the year.
Staff from the UVA Library are also teaming up with local Girl Scout Troop 927 to gather resources and assemble to-go hygiene packs for The Haven, a multi-resource day shelter for people experiencing homelessness and extreme poverty in the Charlottesville area.
From Sept. 27 through Oct. 4 here will be drop-off tubs located at Brown Science and Engineering Library, Clemons Library, the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library and Ivy Stacks for material donations.
The hygiene packs will include two rolls of toilet paper, a Ziploc bag filled with laundry pods or powder detergent, a bar of soap, a stick of deodorant, a disposable razor and a full-sized toothbrush and toothpaste.
The library is welcoming fully assembled kits or individual items, as well as monetary donations through Venmo (@GStroop927 – please include “The Haven” in the memo line).
For questions or more information about this ongoing project, email Girl Scout Troop 927: troop927cville@gmail.com.
Here are some photos of projects that took place Wednesday:
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