Pre-Trip Service with Community Forklift
We had our first day of pre-trip service today! Pre-trip service is a component of AB that allows us to connect the issues we are learning about back to our community here in College Park. For our pre-trip service we volunteered with Community Forklift and TerpService. Community Forklift is a nonprofit that provides recycled and gently-used building materials and appliances at a reduced or free cost for community members in need. We spent our time with them measuring doors: approximately 240 doors were measured, which at $20 each translates to roughly $4800 more doors sold and in turn 3 months of donations. Unfortunately the snow cut our day short, but hopefully the other half of the group that is going on March 7 will get to stay longer. Check out the reflections of our group below.
Reflection questions for the [DR]EAM Team: What was one interesting thing you learned about Community Forklift? How do you think they make a difference in the community? What themes did you see today that you think will connect to our experience in the DR?
