Community Engagement

Brown volunteers help spiff up Providence’s School One

Some 85 staff and student volunteers spent a day renovating School One, an alternative high school. Were you there? Read the article; see the video.
By TAB staff  |  May 24, 2008  |  Email to a friend

At School One, an alternative private high school in Providence, R.I., the students are colorful – and so are the rooms. On a spring weekend, dozens of Brown University volunteers showed up to give the school a badly needed makeover.

Volunteers gathered around their captain, John Colarusso of Brown’s facilities staff, who imparted inspiration as well as instructions. They cleaned out clutter, repaired and painted walls, and built some furniture. The effort was one of 17 simultaneous rebuilding jobs across the state coordinated by the Rhode Island chapter of Rebuilding Together, a national organization that rehabilitates homes for low-income homeowners and nonprofit institutions.

Read more, and watch a video about the experience, at the Christian Science Monitor Web site.