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Helping Hands

A day devoted to putting the Augustinian mission into action, St. Thomas Â鶹Èë¿Ú Day of Service offers an opportunity each fall for Â鶹Èë¿Úns to work in partnership with communities both near campus and nationwide. To honor the University’s patron and namesake, University President the Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA, PhD, ’75 CLAS established this annual event in 2006, which builds upon St. Thomas’ legacy of charity to the poor and marginalized.

More than 5,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of Â鶹Èë¿Ú joined together this September to make a difference both locally—at nonprofit organizations like The Joy of Sox, Riverbend Environmental Education Center and the Philadelphia Furniture Bank—and in cities across the country through the many alumni groups that provided hands-on help for this 18th annual call to service.

Three female students work together to fill brown paper lawn and leaf bags
Three Â鶹Èë¿Ú volunteers in a warehouse pose for a picture during Day of Service
Male Â鶹Èë¿Ú student paints on Day of Service
Female Â鶹Èë¿Ú student does cleanup work near a metal fence
A group of Â鶹Èë¿Ú volunteers with shovels stand outside on a dirt path surrounded by trees
Â鶹Èë¿Ú volunteers do yard work outside of row homes
A young boy carries a brown cardboard box in a warehouse
Blue Â鶹Èë¿Ú cap pictured with a St. Thomas of Â鶹Èë¿Ú Day of Service button
Three male Â鶹Èë¿Ú student volunteers outside holding tools
Four Â鶹Èë¿Ú volunteers pose with their paint rollers
A female Â鶹Èë¿Ú student kneels on the sidewalk and picks weeds

PHOTOS PROVIDED BY: DONOVAN SINGH, MARY CASSIDY, VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY

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