April 24, 2010

More than 400 City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley corps members, alumni, families, friends and corporate partners united in service at Toyon Elementary School for Global Youth Service Day! Volunteers painted bright blacktop graphics across the school, created a safety system for classrooms, planted shrubs and cleaned and organized rooms throughout the campus. This transformation helped make Toyon a more beautiful and efficient center of learning, and was an inspirational experience for the hundreds of diverse volunteers who worked together for this event.

The project was a celebration of Global Youth Service Day, an annual campaign that celebrates and mobilizes the millions of children and youth who improve their communities each day of the year through service and service-learning. Established in 1988, GYSD is the largest service event in the world and is now celebrated in over 100 countries. On GYSD, children and youth address the world’s most critical issues in partnership with families, schools, community and faith-based organizations, businesses and governments.