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Day of Caring
Sets More Records

Final Tally:
6,300 Volunteers, 340 Projects, $1 Million

 

Trident United Way’s Day of Caring was a smashing success, with 6,300 people volunteering to help non-profit agencies, schools and even individuals in need across our tri-county community.

Roughly 130 companies and 180 agencies participated in the mammoth operation. The value of labor and supplies on that one day topped $1 million, and many organizations will return to their projects to volunteer throughout the year.

There were hundreds of highlights of the day, including the gorgeous weather. Here are just a few:

• The Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, also known as the Nuke School, sent 400 sailors into the Liberty Hill neighborhood of North Charleston to fix up houses and clean up the area.
• Home Depot, Wachovia and more Nuke Schoolers cleaned, put up a fence and built four storage areas from scratch for the Cannon Street YMCA in Charleston.
• The Post and Courier and Atlantic Coast Life Insurance refurbished Florence Crittenton Programs of SC, a home for young girls who are pregnant. Post and Courier employees even brought an outside metal stairwell up to code by welding supports back in their shop.
• JW Aluminum built a ramp for wheelchair-bound clients of the disAbility Resource Center and a concrete walkway for elderly residents of the Carter May Home in West Ashley.

Day of Caring is a day of community service, organized by United Way mostly through companies, that covers the entire tri-county community, from South Santee to John’s Island, from St. Stephen to Harleyville.

This year’s Day of Caring in the Lowcountry was again a record-breaker, larger than all the Days of Caring throughout the rest of South Carolina combined.

To see photos of Day of Caring, go here.