Day of Service

Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday that occurs on the third Monday of January (on or around the time of Dr. King's Jan. 15th birthday) and it is also one of two National Days of Service. Similar to how Philadelphia organizes an annual day of service to honor Dr. King, we are hoping to bring young people together to serve others on their day off from school. On MLK Day, or King Day, we invite students in grades K-5 to take part in a variety of service projects as middle and high school students help guide them. This event is a relatively new tradition at Colonial School District, and we hope that it will grow year after year.

Everyone! High school and middle school students can participate by volunteering to run the service stations at the Day of Service event. Elementary school students are invited to attend with their parents/guardians on the Day of Service to help make the projects. Parents, community members and CSD employees are invited to join the planning committee to grow the event. 

Projects may vary from year to year, but might involve coloring sheets or making cards for people in the hospital, creating toys for pets in local animal shelters, collecting various types of donations for local food pantries or shelters, and more.

In the event students cannot participate in person on the Day of Service, we also have ideas for at-home projects, which you can access by clicking here.

Do you have an idea for a project we could do? Send it to us via email to jlester@colonialsd.org.

Contact Jessica Lester, Community Relations Coordinator, to find out about planning meetings: jlester@colonialsd.org or 610-834-1670, ext. 2115.