For the first time William Byrd Community house opened its doors to serve our families in a whole new way. We had a week-long full-daycamp for our AfterSchool students during the Richmond Public Schools’ Spring Break with the help of some very special people; our VCU AmeriCorps volunteers.
WBCH has had a great history with AmeriCorps Program as these students can help their education through working in the community. For the week we had six amazing students work with children from 5-12years of age in the arts, healthy living, life-skills and a tennis clinic with Lobs and Lessons.
Our Children’s Services Director, Karen Altic felt that the AmeriCorps program worked very well, “What a devoted and skilled group of young men and women came all week to work with the children on their various activities and trips. They worked well with our WBCH staff and children, doing whatever were asked of them. Each volunteer worked well independently and took initiative to assume helpful tasks whenever/wherever they saw a need. The staff, children and I enjoyed the chance to work with them.”
We would like to give thanks each of the AmeriCorps students that made our Spring Break Camp so much fun! Candice Nunnally, Arianne Haydel, Jordan Smolko, Ann Cavataio, & Clay Porter. They did an amazing job!
