Children's Home of Illinois

Children's Home of Illinois

3rd Annual Make a Difference Day -- View Pictures here

Over 300 Youth and adults volunteered the weekend of October 25 for Make a Difference Day. This is the third year the community has participated in this national event, America’s largest day of caring, sponsored by the Weekend Magazine and Points of Light Foundation. Volunteers cleaned up landscape waste and raked leaves in over 40 yards of senior citizens and disabled individuals. In addition, they picked up litter and landscape waste in the ten neighborhoods. A huge thank you to everyone involved for making this event such a success!

Ten areas in the City of Peoria neighborhoods hosted large dumpsters for landscape waste and litter. The following areas hosted and monitored the dumpsters:

· Olde Towne South

· East Bluff

· Near Northside

· West Bluff

· Averyville

· Columbia Terrace North

· Common Place

Twenty-four community sponsors included the following:

· Advanced Medical Transport

· Children’s Home Association of Illinois

· City of Peoria

· Coca Cola

· Cub Foods

· Dorian LaSaine

· Five Star Water

· Hinckley Springs

· Hometown Buffet

· Kroger

· Lester’s Donuts

· Lowe’s

· Nena True Value

· Peoria County

· Peoria City Beautiful

· Pepsi Cola

· Prairie Farms

· Puritan Springs

· RC Bottling

· Subway

· Target

· UFS Saving Center

· University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Services

· Walmart

Youth volunteers came from the following groups:

· Catholic Charities

· Children’s Home Day Reporting Center

· Children’s Home Kiefer Academy

· Children’s Home Kiefer Knoxville

· Children’s Home Manual Community Service Project

· Children’s Home Residential Programs

· Children’s Home SILP

· Children’s Home Woodruff Community Service Project

· Common Place Teen REACH

· Tyng Teen REACH

· White Teen REACH

· Woodruff Key Club

· YMCA Teen REACH

Adult volunteers came from the following areas/groups:

· Advanced Medical Transport

· Averyville

· Bradley University