Hundreds of Philadelphia University students, faculty and staff donned yellow t-shirts and went out into the community for the fourth annual Day of Service on Sept. 27. More than 1,200 volunteers dedicated nearly 4,000 combined service hours to help those in the surrounding communities at nearly 100 community partner sites.

As part of the University-wide commitment to service, volunteers gathered on campus and off, helping to clean up parks, talking to high school students about college, making dresses for girls in Africa or teddy bears for hospitalized children, painting a church, feeding the homeless, and doing much more to serve others.

The projects displayed the range of interests represented at PhilaU. Students in the Asclepius Society for Pre-Med students met at Shriner’s Hospital for Children on Broad Street to entertain and make crafts with children and teenagers. Student Government Association volunteers helped run supplies between four Alex’s Lemonade Stands to raise money for cancer research. Another team helped cleaned windows, walls and baseboards at a Baptist Children’s Services group home for 12 teenage girls. And there were projects on farms, at book banks, on campus and at a museum, among many others.

Click here to read some testimonials from Day of Service volunteers, and click here for a slideshow of photos.

Please check back at a later date for more information about Day of Service 2012.