UMass Chan volunteers help repaint hallways at Worcester East Middle School - UMass Medical School

By Pat Sargent

UMass Chan Medical School Communications

Linhelle Charles from Outreach Programs astatine UMass Chan Medical School helps overgarment a hallway astatine Worcester East Middle School.

Volunteers from UMass Chan Medical School spent 2 days coating the hallways of Worcester East Middle School during the December schoolhouse vacation. The effort was portion of the UMass Chan Cares Volunteer Initiative, which provides employees with 2 days of scheduled enactment clip per twelvemonth to enactment their favourite causes and institutions.

“I deliberation that seeing the walls painted and the gathering looking amended and much welcoming volition archer students that we deliberation that your acquisition is important,” said Worcester East Middle School Principal Carenza Jackson. “They travel into a gathering that sometimes doesn’t needfully bespeak that message. So, we privation them to cognize that.”

Volunteers included UMass Chan unit members from the Chancellor’s Office, the Office of Well Being, Human Resources, Public Safety, the Office of Communications and others.

“To get 20 oregon truthful volunteers during a clip erstwhile astir radical privation to conscionable beryllium location with families and observe the caller twelvemonth oregon person a vacation to celebrate, it’s truly a testament to the unit and squad astatine UMass Chan. It’s large to spot the diverseness of the volunteers and their departments that amusement up and correspond their offices,” said Che Anderson, adjunct vice chancellor of metropolis and assemblage relations.

Roughly 750 seventh- and eighth-grade students be East Middle School. The bulk of students place arsenic high-need and astir travel from low-income families. According to the Massachusetts Historical Commission, the schoolhouse astatine 420 Grafton St. opened successful 1924 and is 1 of the oldest schoolhouse buildings successful the city.

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