📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Old North St. Louis Restoration Group, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI is a community-based nonprofit organization established by residents of the Old North St. Louis neighborhood in 1981 to revitalize the physical and social dimensions of the community in a manner that respects its historic, cultural, and urban character. The neighborhood has been undergoing a dramatic transformation in recent years, but is still home to many economically disadvantaged residents. More information can be found online at: www.onsl.org/
💼 What the programme involves
WORK: Volunteers will help with community based projects including working in community gardens throughout the neighborhood, and will assist with construction work on a project to rebuild a historic building in the neighborhood. On Saturdays, volunteers will work at the local Farmers’ Market. Some projects will support neighborhood residents such as cleaning up alleys and vacant lots, trimming trees and pulling weeds, and helping elderly and disabled people with things that they can no longer get out and do. Volunteers will work Tuesday through Saturday each week.
STUDY THEME: City restoration and community development.
🏠 Accommodation on site
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will be living in a large house in the community. Meals will be prepared together and with families in the neighborhood.
📍 About the location
LOCATION: Approximately two kilometers from downtown St. Louis, Missouri.
Leisure Activities: Parks and trails are close by; restaurants, bars, and blues clubs are downtown and around the City; the theatre district and several museums are within short driving distance or accessible by public transit; professional sports are nearby in the downtown area.