Pitt Volunteers Reach Out, Give Back on Make a Difference Day

Issue Date:

November 4, 2013

More than 70 buses lined up in front of the William Pitt Union to take volunteers to and from their destinations. Students assisted the Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation with a housing-stock survey in Garfield.

Nearly 3,300 student volunteers from the Volunteers helped to clean up “Kite Hill,” a Garfield park, prior to a Halloween event later that day. University of Pittsburgh fanned out across the City of Pittsburgh and to a few points beyond for Pitt’s Make a Difference Day on Oct. 26. The group of volunteers comprised the largest number of students to sign up in the six-year history of Pitt Make a Difference Day, a project organized by students with support from Pitt’s Office of Student Affairs. The students volunteered at two on-campus projects as well as 81 off-campus projects, including 48 in the City of Pittsburgh and others as far away as McKeesport, Verona, and Moon Township. (Photos by Mary Jane Bent/CIDDE)