Students in the Archdiocese of Louisville were among those who donated about 100,000 hours of service during Mayor Greg Fischer’s week of service known as Give A Day, April 14-22 this year.
Holy Trinity School students in preschool through eighth-grade and Holy Trinity Church parishioners donated more than 1,000 hours during the week of service.
Among the service provided by students was collecting toiletries, backpacks and gifts for families served by the Sister Visitor Center, St. Martin of Tours’ Schuhmann Center and the Ronald McDonald House in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Presentation Academy students reused plastic shopping bags to make more than a dozen sleeping mats for the homeless and delivered them to St. John Center for Homeless Men.
St. Michael School eighth-graders picked up trash and laid mulch at Joe Creason Park.
