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ORGANIZATION: Focus: HOPE

Keep it 100

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Assist the Hope Village Initiative (100 block surrounding Focus: HOPE) with neighborhood revitalization projects such as:

1. Create reading & rain gardens

Dig holes and trenches, soil removal, composting beds, plant transplants, clear overgrowth, plant seeds

2. Community Gardens

Installing raised bed and plant vegetable seeds for community gardens

3. Home board-ups

Board-up nearby homes


4. Debris removal

Trash cleanup and pruning on garden lot


This activity is in support of neighborhood revitalization. This event will involve boarding up homes that have been previously identified and inspected by Focus: HOPE staff members.

Please be prepared to work outdoors. Wear clothes you do not mind getting dirty.

Attire:

  • Long sleeves
  • Pants
  • Work boots (strongly recommended)
  • Work gloves*
  • Safety goggles*

*recommend, not required

Tools and supplies will be made on site. If you have any tools you would like to work with. Make sure you label your tools with your name (make sure it is visible).


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About Focus: HOPE

Location:

1200 Oakman Blvd., Building B. (Central Warehouse), Detroit, MI 48238, US

Mission Statement

Recognizing the dignity and beauty of every person, we pledge intelligent and practical action to overcome racism, poverty and injustice; and to build a metropolitan community where all people may live in freedom, harmony, trust, and affection; black and white, yellow, brown, and red, from Detroit and its suburbs, of every economic status, national origin, and religious persuasion. We join in this covenant.

Description

Focus: HOPE is a human service organization. Founded in 1968 in the wake of the 1967 Detroit riots by Father Willam T. Cunningham (1930-1997) and co-founder Eleanor M. Josaitis (1931-2011), Focus: HOPE unites a multicultural community in common efforts to overcome injustice and build racial harmony. Over the years, Focus: HOPE has initiated practical solutions to the problems of hunger, economic disparity, inadequate education, and racial divisiveness. Answers can be found in Focus: HOPE's technology training programs, educational and corporate partnerships, and food programs.

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Community
Environment
Children & Youth, Community, Environment

WHEN

Sat Apr 30, 2016
09:00 AM - 02:00 PM

WHERE

1400 Oakman BoulevardDetroit, MI 48238

(42.399677,-83.12372)
 

DATE POSTED

April 8, 2016

SKILLS

  • Urban Planning
  • Renovation
  • Landscaping

GOOD FOR

  • Kids
  • Teens
  • Group

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 14
  • at least a 2 hour commitment

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