iHelp

iHelp is a volunteer project organized by the Student Alumni Ambassadors that unites more than 1,000 graduate and undergraduate students. iHelp participants meet for a complimentary breakfast and registration, then disperse to volunteer at more than 40 sites in the surrounding community.

This campus-wide day of service allows students to:

• Collaborate to improve the societal issues that are present in the Champaign-Urbana community and beyond
• Make a dramatically positive change in the community environment for a day
• Interact with a diverse student body for invaluable life lessons outside of the classroom

iHelp volunteer efforts in 2007 included:

• Building a playground at Victory Park
• Assisting workers at the Eastern Illinois Foodbank
• Ushering at the Virginia Theatre
• Updating information for shamrock season at the Muscular Dystrophy Association
• Doing grounds work at Allerton Park
• Cleaning up the Boneyard Creek
• Playing with special-needs children at the Swann Special Care Center

Over 1,000 students volunteered at the following sites during iHelp ’07:

For further information, please contact Ellen Prentice at eprenti2@uiuc.edu.

UI news report on the 2007 i-Help