Sailors Visit JASA Williamsburg for Fleet Week

Check out this great article about a Fleet Week volunteer event at JASA Williamsburg Senior Center!
http://www.usa-patriotism.com/articles/tv/fleetweek_centers.htm

The JASA Van Cortlandt Senior Center has a whole new look thanks to the hard work of some great student volunteers from buildOn! On February 16th and 17th, it was hard to distinguish the JASA Van Cortlandt Game Room from an artist’s loft as Bronx high school students painted, glued, colored and decorated three large banners, a dozen posters and countless placemats and table decorations to spruce up the center. Over the two days, JASA Van Cortlandt hosted seventeen students and two buildOn staff members, all of whom braved the snow and chose to spend a day of their February vacation volunteering with JASA. In addition to the artwork, some students helped serve lunch to the senior center members, and one student volunteer even brought his guitar and played for the senior center members as they ate. The senior center members appreciated having the lively young visitors and will be able to enjoy their art work at the center for a long time to come.

buildOn is on international organization that strives for improvement through education and community service. In New York City, buildOn manifests as an after-school initiative for high school students. Students not only work to improve themselves through education and their communities through service, but also have the possibility to visit developing countries to build schools and promote literacy world-wide.