Royal Caribbean & Celebrity Service Day!
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Royal Caribbean & Celebrity Cruises To Conduct Largest Annual
Community Service Day
1,000 Volunteers Fan Out To Provide Unparalleled Day Of Corporate
Community Service
MIAMI, April 12
Over 1,000 Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises
employees, family members and friends will be repainting, replanting
and refurbishing tomorrow in communities from Miami to Wichita in the
largest annual community service event held by a single Florida
company.
For the fifth consecutive year, the volunteers will spend a day
donating their time and energy to one of 16 non-profit organizations,
in 17 locations. Their efforts are part of the company's annual
G.I.V.E. corporate volunteer day. G.I.V.E. stands for ``Get Involved
Volunteer Everywhere'' and is part of the global cruise company's
outreach efforts in areas where they operate.
The employees will spend their Saturday assisting non-profit
organizations that focus on helping children and families in need,
improving education, and enhancing our environment. Their activities
will be as diverse as:
* Refurbishing classrooms for developmentally challenged children
and
adults
* Sprucing up Miami Senior High School in preparation for its
bicentennial
* Helping "green" Wichita
* Brightening up 26 blocks of the Miami Beach boardwalk
* Helping two YMCA's improve classrooms and play areas for
children
``The events of this past year have underscored the need for unified
community service with strong corporate support,'' said Richard D.
Fain, Chairman and CEO of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. ``I am pleased
and gratified that 1,000 of our dedicated employees are responding to
this call for action, and will make important and meaningful
contributions to improve the quality of life for so many people.''
The cruise company's employees were given the opportunity to perform
their volunteer work for one of 16 non-profit organizations. (A list
of the organizations, their project description and their locations
follows.) Twelve of the agencies are in South Florida, and four are in
Wichita, Kansas, where the company maintains a reservations center.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is a global cruise vacation company that
operates Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Royal
Celebrity Tours. Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises
have a combined total of 22 ships in service and six under
construction or on firm order. Royal Celebrity Tours operates
land-tour vacations in Alaska and Canada utilizing the world's largest
glass-domed railcars. Additional information can be obtained by
contacting your travel professional.
PARTICIPATING NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
South Florida Organizations
Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC) -- Charter School
Project Description: Project Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC)
will
remodel a quad of schoolrooms on the ARC campus for challenged
children. We
will be painting the schoolrooms and lavatories and performing minor
repairs,
including installing new cove bases and light fixtures. Outside, we
will mulch
and replant the garden beds, add some sod and plant hedges. Our
efforts will
provide a pleasing environment for the children, and will be the
launching
point for additional ARC renovations, including a special playground
area.
Number of Volunteers: 80
Location: 2600 S.W 32nd Ave Pembroke Park, FL 33023
Site Contact: Mark Musial
Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC)-- Leap Project
Project Description: Project LEAP will refinish the spacious Adult
Education center for challenged adults. We will be painting the center
and lavatories and performing minor repairs to light fixtures. The
exterior will get a facelift with new hedges and mulch. Sod will also
be planted in the front of the building. The LEAP program will be
expanding, and our efforts will prepare the Center for additional
classrooms
Number of Volunteers: 90
Location: 2600 S.W 32nd Ave Pembroke Park, FL 33023
Site Contact: Doug Jones
George Washington Carver Elementary School
Project Description: This school serves low-income and high-income
families. Landscape adjacent garden areas consisting of mulching, tree
trimming and planting.
Number of Volunteers: 45
Location: 238 Grand Avenue Coral Gables, Florida
33133
Site Contact: Martha Garrett/Jose Castillo
Miami Children's Home Society
Project Description: The Children's Home Society provides care for
abused and at-risk children in Miami-Dade. Our project will include
landscaping and painting around the 3 buildings at the site to
beautify the area for the kids and employees who work there.
Number of Volunteers: 60
Location: 800 NW 15th Street Miami, FL 33136
Site Contact: Teri Rodriguez/Jackie Harris
Community Partnership for the Homeless
Project Description: Prepare and serve lunch to the homeless
residents, families and visitors of CPHI. We will treat the residents
to a lunch served ``restaurant style'' (instead of their usual
``buffet line'' style). In conjunction with the project itself, we
will collect donation items (i.e., socks, diapers, soap, toothbrushes,
sheets, blankets, etc.) and deliver to the facility.
Number of Volunteers: 20
Location: 1550 N. Miami Ave.
Site Contact: Kathy Corpuz
His House Children's Home
Project Description:
His House Children's Home is a non-profit Christian organization
dedicated
to restoring joy in the lives of children and their families. The home
provides temporary safe and secure housing for children, newborn to
ten years
of age, who have been abused, neglected, abandoned and children whose
parents
are in crisis. Beautify project grounds by trimming trees and hedges,
raking,
re-sodding, painting playground equipment, building two sand boxes,
assembling
swing set, repairing baby swing and clean interior of newly renovated
building
Number of Volunteers: 70
Location: 20000 N.W. 47 Ave., Bldg. 22 Opa Locka, Fl. 33055
Site Contact: Chantal Rodriguez/Cassie Kissane
Landmark Community
Project Description: Landmark is a residential community for about 215
adults with developmental disabilities. They provide a full range of
programs including housing, employment, recreation, occupational
therapy, physical therapy, multi-sensory therapy & behavioral therapy.
The project consists of the sprucing up the pool area and painting and
landscaping around the chapel. We will be conditioning and painting
637 square feet of chain link fence surrounding pool area, weeding
around the fence and painting a 3-foot wall inside the pool area. We
will also be painting the ceiling of the exterior walkway surrounding
the chapel, painting the poles and planters around the chapel,
painting the exterior roof trim and landscaping in the front of the
chapel.
Number of Volunteers: 75
Location: 20000 NW 47th Avenue Opa-Locka, FL 33055
Site Contact: Darlene Felton/Anne-Marie Rho
Miami Beach Park
Project Description: The Blue Ribbon Task Force's mission is the
beautification and cleanliness of The City of Miami Beach for the
community as well as for the millions of tourists who visit each year.
The goal of the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Tourism Task Force is to paint the
handrails and columns on the boardwalk between 21st street and 47th
street. The purpose is to create a more presentable environment for
the beach going residents and tourists.
Number of Volunteers: 200
Location: Miami Beach
Site Contact: Virginia Vega/Barbara Gonzalez
Miami Sr. High
Project Description: Help us prepare Miami Senior High school for its
Centennial Celebration this fall with some much needed landscaping. We
will be planting ground cover, mulching, and pruning existing plants
at Miami-Dade's oldest high school. At the conclusion of the project
it is our objective to have significantly improved the targeted
interior courtyard areas of Miami Senior High to provide a better
environment for the Centennial celebration and the school's 3200
student.
Number of Volunteers: 60
Location: 2450 S.W. 1st Street Miami, FL 33135
Site Contact: Lily Gonzalez/Alexander Gerdt
St. Albans Child Enrichment Center
Project Description: St. Alban's is the oldest childcare program in
Miami Dade County. It is a nonprofit organization in service for over
54 years, providing services for infants, toddlers, pre-school and
school-age children. They offer a variety of programs which include
Head Start, Child Development, and After School Care. They also
provide assistance to children with disability and their families. The
building needs to be painted outside with two colors, including the
doors. Landscaping in the children's play area is needed, mainly sod.
Number of Volunteers: 45
Location: 3465 Brooker Street Miami, FL 33133
Site Contact: Anita Bernstein/Richard Gonzalez
Word of Life Missionary Baptist Church
Project Description: The Word of Life Missionary Baptist Church and
its leadership hope to bring a little light into Liberty City. Through
their Community Development Program, Word of Life provides housing to
people in need, helps local businesses get started and works to
beautify the community. This project will include indoor painting, dry
wall ceiling repair and building.
Number of Volunteers: 80
Location: 2275 NW 62nd Street Miami, FL
Site Contact: Jessica Jadali/Pamela Patterson
YWCA Cain Building
Project Description: This YWCA childcare program exists to service
low- income, working families in the Miami-Dade Community. The
children range in age from infant to four years old. This is a great
program, and they could really use our help brightening up the
children's rooms! We will be painting classrooms & play rooms for the
children.
Number of Volunteers: 30
Location: Cain Building, 470 NE 2nd Avenue Miami, Florida
Site Contact: Terri Herring
YWCA Carol City
Project Description: Carol City YWCA Windows Learning Center is a
childcare center for infants to 3 year olds. We will be turning a
large open field next door to their childcare center into a playground
& picnic area for the kids to use for outdoor activities. Volunteers
will be laying the sod in the field.
Number of Volunteers: 45
Location: 3468 NW 199th St Carol City, FL 33056
Site Contact: Marvetta Nangle/Grady Sapp
Wichita, Kansas Organizations
City of Wichita Tree Trust
Project Description: Tree planting and landscaping projects.
Number of Volunteers: 45
Location: Planeview Park
Site Contact: Rita Stolz
Kansas Children's Service League Art Exhibit for National Child Abuse
Prevention Month
Project Description: Distribution of information about child abuse
prevention and ``tip cards'' with ribbons, also getting shoppers to
vote on the art.
Number of Volunteers: 25
Location: Towne East Mall
Site Contact: Toni Fitch
Salvation Army at Murdock House
Project Description: Yardwork to include planting flowers, etc.,
and some
interior painting at this residence for transitional housing clients.
Number of Volunteers: 30
Location: 8400 W. Murdock
Site Contact: Lori Cantrell
Sedgwick County Zoo Pampas/Outback Exhibit and New Front Entry
Project Description: Planting, mulching and clean up.
Number of Volunteers: 25
Location: 5555 Zoo Boulevard
Site Contact: Cheryl Louderback