Students reach out to community
The University of Idaho’s annual Saturday of Service event will take place this weekend where more than 30 different projects will help improve the Moscow community.
Tony Ive, outreach and recruitment student coordinator for the ASUI Center for Volunteerism and Social Action, said there will be an estimated 450-500 students participating in this year’s event.
“It’s one of the best ways for students to plug in and realize the work that can be done in our society,” Ive said.
Ive said students will split into teams. Each team will be assigned a different project and each team will differ in size depending on the scale of the project. Ive said smaller projects will have around five people per team while the large ones will have up to 80. He said each team is designated at least one team leader and can have up to four.
“A lot of students don’t know exactly how they can get involved in community services like this, and we provide a way for them to find out,” Ive said.
Ive said students who participate are usually there because they legitimately want to help out their community.
Ive said a few of the projects will include doing yard work for retirement homes, recycling trash at the recycling center and a project called Orphan Acres where students work with disabled animals, mainly horses.
He said one of the bigger projects is a tree planting project that will take place in multiple places around Moscow.