The King Day of Service is a way to transform Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and teachings into community service that helps solve social problems. That service may meet a tangible need, such as fixing up a school or senior center, or it may meet a need of the spirit, such as building a sense of community or mutual responsibility. How ambitious you choose to be depends on you—and on your community's resources. For example, you could:
- Recruit mentors
- Hold a workshop on Dr. King's life and examine issues in your community that you can address
- Teach interview skills and resume writing
- Help a low income family find free tax preparation services in their community and take advantage of the earned income tax credit
- Train tutors
- Make and distribute disaster kits
- Build a playground
- Participate in a neighborhood watch
- Bring meals to homebound neighbors
- Run a day camp for children with working parents
- Register bone marrow and organ donors
- Shovel elderly neighbors' walkways
- Arrange a health fair
- Teach seniors how to surf the Internet
- Devise crafts projects for children in hospitals
- Make a public space accessible to the disabled
- Serve meals at a homeless shelter
- Remove graffiti from a building and paint a mural
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Active Jan 7, 2008 to Jan 31, 2008
