The Smithtown Youth Bureau will host approximately 80 teen volunteers who will spend their Saturday cleaning up Sweetbriar Nature Center and beautifying the grounds in honor of Global Youth Service Day. The volunteer youth will help get Sweetbriar ready for the season, cleaning up and beautifying the grounds while planting and painting a Kindness Rock garden.
The Smithtown Parks Department has provided the volunteers with equipment necessary to clean up the property. Sweetbriar Nature Center Director Marie Smith and her team of devoted professionals will be readily available to educate the volunteers regarding the rescued wildlife living on the grounds and the many benefits the helpers are providing by assisting in the clean up.
About GYSD:
Established in 1988, Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) celebrates and mobilizes the millions of young people who improve their communities through service. Global Youth Service Day is the largest service event in the world and the only one dedicated to the contributions that younger generations make year round. Global Youth Service Day is celebrated in more than 135 countries, highlighting young people working together in schools, youth organizations, nonprofits, community and faith-based organizations, national service programs, government agencies and mentorships, addressing the world’s most critical issues to help change their communities.