One of the best ways to get involved in your community is through service. Giving back can be as easy as volunteering your time to clean up around town, helping local nonprofit agencies that need manpower, or personally helping out fellow residents in need. One special day dedicated to these acts of community care is United Way’s Day of Caring, a community-wide volunteer day that brings together individuals, programs, and local businesses to help make a positive impact through service projects.
This year, Trisco Systems joined a record number of 300 volunteers for Lima’s third annual United Way Day of Caring. Volunteers helped with a variety of projects, including landscaping, carpentry, sprucing up local business properties with paint, and other activities that organizations can not afford to do themselves due to limited manpower.
Our volunteers went door-to-door for the Red Cross, offering courtesy checks of smoke alarms. We reached 106 homes and installed 277 free smoke alarms in the community. Those benefiting from the inspections or installations included approximately 30% youth, 17% seniors, 18% disabled, and 5% military or veterans.
It was truly humbling to see so many people take time out of their busy schedules with the sole purpose of helping one another. It’s these acts of kindness that remind all of us that we must treat others how we would like to be treated.
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