University of Rhode Island students join Atlanta Habitat and Atlanta Police Recruits for an Alternative Spring Break Neighborhood Cleanup, March 17

Spring Break will have a different meaning for 23 students who have decided to pack their cleaning gloves instead of swimsuits and join Atlanta Habitat for Humanity and Atlanta Police Training Academy Recruits to clean up a northwest Atlanta neighborhood.

The volunteers will walk the English Avenue neighborhood, starting at its entrance, to collect debris and haul it to a dumpster, perform light landscaping, and much more. They are expected to cover about 21 square miles.

As a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization, Atlanta Habitat has built more 50 houses on Atlanta’s Westside. This neighborhood cleanup effort is part of the nonprofit homebuilder’s larger commitment to making sure affordable homeownership is a part of the dramatic transformation happening on the Westside.

WHO:  
Approximately 50 University of Rhode Island Alternative Spring Break students and 26 Atlanta Police Academy Recruits Class 248

WHEN:  
9 a.m. – noon, Friday, March 17, 2017

WHERE:  
426 Elm Street NW, Atlanta 30318. (see map)