Last week a few of us in team PACK went over to Nolde to do our first service work with them. They had plenty of work for us to do inside the office, and outside. We started out by helping recycle old research journals which were just sitting around, a lot of them were from the ’70s and ’80s! There was a park area outside for kids which needed to be raked, but we decided to work on that another day when it wasn’t 30 degrees outside. After this, we helped put books for the free library back on the shelf after they were taken off for an event.
The Take a Book Leave a Book Library
The next task was a bit of a tedious one – the Nolde Educational Center still uses a card catalog system, and our job was to sort through and remove the cards for the journals which we had recycled earlier. It took a bit of time, but I put on music and had a good time regardless.
Nolde Educational Center Card Catalog
Nolde Educational Center’s Animal Display
Finally to finish off the day of work we helped prepare for events that Nolde holds for kids by cutting out paper turtles.
Turtles!
The people the work for Nolde were great and gave us plenty of things to do, and we are excited to go back and do some more work.
Recycling is very important, and more people need to be taking advantage of the resources we have available. I’m happy that those magazines aren’t ending up in a landfill. It’s time to stop looking a things we don’t use anymore as a new possibility rather than waste.