Wolves on the Prowl Community Service

Saturday the 8th, 2008 the students of the College of Business participate in a community service program called “Wolves on the Prowl Community Service”. This program was organized by the Loyola Alumni Association who host the Seventh Annual National Community Service Day. Students had many community projects to chose from. The names of the different projects were "Cubs in the Den", "Service Starts in Our Own Community", Wilson Charter School, LUCAP's project SMILE. All the projects offered by the Alumni Association where in the area of the of New Orleans. I chose the project on the Wilson Charter School. When we got there were a lot of chores to do like painting a class, helping in the copy room, cutting tennis balls for the chairs and more. The chore that I was assigned to do was cutting tennis balls. The propose of this modified tennis balls is that they reduce the noise made by chairs when they are moved during class time by students. At first I thought that my chore was going to be really easy, but then, when I tried to cut the first tennis ball I noticed that it was very hard even to make a hole in it because they are made of very strong rubber. I worked in this task with two persons that work in the school, a student from Loyola Law School, and two of my friends Eugenio and Javier. We had to cut two huge bags filled with tennis balls. At first it seemed impossible to cut all that balls in just a couple of hours that we had to do the chore, but at the end we did it finally. We had a good time helping in a little way to this school. During our chore we chat about a lot of things with this persons that we just had meet hours ago. New Orleans is a city that needs a lot of help, even more after hurricane Katrina that destroy mayor par of the city and cause a lot of damage to New Orleans residence. Doing community service is a enriching experience that people should do it more often. There is a lot of organizations that promote community service in New Orleans like Build Now NOLA that help people from New Orleans re build their homes after what happened with Katrina. Basically the mission of this organization is to provide an alternative renovation or modular homes by designing and constructing site-built, elevated houses that reflect the style and quality of traditional New Orleans architecture. This organization has helped a lot of people that lose their homes during hurricane Katrina.