Harvey School Students To Perform a Day of Service in Stamford

A group of students from The Harvey School in Katonah, NY will be in Stamford on Saturday volunteering to perform a day of community service.

The group, along with the project coordinator, Dean of Students Pat Normandeau, will be working with Domus and The Childhood Learning Center on the city’s East Side. Work will include planting shrubs, bulbs and perennials, painting, and some students will make cards as gifts for teachers to have on hand to give to their students as gifts for work well done. Other volunteers will help prepare a meal for young people who live in two area group residences.

Normandeau said Saturday’s project is just the first of others planned in the city. “This day begins an initiative to collaborate with various organizations in Stamford during the 2014/2015 school year, leading up to the 4th Annual Harvey Builds in October 2015. We are drawing on our students in Harvey’s Student Council as well as our Community Service Club and the general population for this effort. Future initiatives may be generated by our Service Learning class, which starts in the winter term.”

Harvey Builds involves a day of community service by the entire upper school and staff. Earlier this month, more than 300 Harvey students and staff spent the day making various improvements to the trails and structures in Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in Cross River, N.Y. for this third annual day of service.

Contributed photo: Harvey School students working at the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation.

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