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Volunteer New York News - MLK Day Registration is Now Open!

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January 3, 2023

From: Volunteer New York

MLK Day of Service

Join us, in Yonkers at the Afya Foundation for our 12th Annual MLK Day of Service in tribute to Dr. King's vision of a beloved community!

Volunteers are needed to help sort through donated medical and humanitarian supplies, which will be shipped to the Caribbean, Africa, and local health systems.

When: Monday, January 16, 2023 from 10 AM - 12 PM

Where: Afya Foundation - 140 Saw Mill River Road Yonkers, NY 10701

Register Now

ABOUT MLK DAY

The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of Service is a day intended to empower individuals, strengthen communities, bridge barriers, create solutions to social problems, and move us closer to Dr. King’s vision of a “Beloved Community.”

Legislation signed in 1983 marked the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a federal holiday. In 1994, Congress designated the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday as a national day of service and charged the Corporation for National and Community Service (now AmeriCorps), the federal agency that leads service and volunteering, with leading this effort. Each year, on the third Monday in January, the MLK Day of Service is observed as a "day on, not a day off" that is intended to empower individuals, strengthen communities, bridge barriers, create solutions to social problems, and move us closer to Dr. King's vision of a "Beloved Community.

Thank you to the thousands of volunteers who have served with us over the last decade to make this National Day of Service a part of who we are as a connected and resilient community. 

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' "

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