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Spring 2019
connection Community Cleanup
Hofstra students fanned out across Hempstead and Uniondale to help neighbors in need, including resident Rosetta Langlois, posing here with members of the Hofstra women’s lacrosse team.
Hundreds of student volunteers took to the streets last fall to help neighbors in need, as part of the annual Shake A Rake community cleanup effort. More than 440 residential and commuting students from groups such as athletics, club sports, fraternities and sororities, and student government worked in shifts on Saturday, November 17, 2018, to clean the yards of 55 homes of mostly elderly or disabled residents who live in the Hempstead and Uniondale communities surrounding campus. They also cleared the 1.5-acre yard of the John J. Byrne Community Center in Uniondale, as well as the grounds of the Cameron Estates Garden in Hempstead. “It is part of Hofstra’s mission to connect with our neighbors and lend a hand whenever we can,” said Anita Ellis, director of the Office of Commuting Student Services and Community Outreach, which sponsors the event. “I’m so proud of the heart-and-soul commitment our student volunteers have made to this cause.” The annual program has grown significantly since it began in 2009 – with 50 students volunteering at six houses. For more information about the 2019 Shake A Rake program, contact Ellis at anita.ellis@hofstra.edu.
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