More than 100 Siena students, faculty and staff participated in this year’s SIENAserves day of campus and community service.
Supported and organized by a number of campus offices, Saints helped clean up campus grounds and facilities, and assisted with the Out of the Darkness Walk, Standish Library Pollinator Project, and a can drive. Off campus, they traveled to service sites in Albany, Troy, Schenectady and Menands to lend a hand.
“SIENAserves is not just a day volunteering. It’s an opportunity for us to step outside of ourselves and engage with real needs in our community,” said event co-organizer Will Figueroa, director of the Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy. “In doing so we begin to understand the responsibility we have, as a Franciscan university, to serve others.”
Fellow co-organizer Cheryl Voter, assistant director of the Center for Academic Community Engagement (ACE), said her goal is for anyone who sees the SIENAserves logo to know that there is a service opportunity available and or happening.
“It was very rewarding to have so many Siena departments recognize the event and want to participate,” she said. “I believe this is only the beginning of a transformative Siena tradition.”
