The City of West Hollywood will continue its tradition of joining hundreds of communities across the country in a National Day of Service to commemorate the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day federal holiday. On Saturday, January 13, 2024 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the City of West Hollywood encourages community members to participate in the West Hollywood Elementary Beautification Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event, located at 970 N. Hammond Street. West Hollywood residents, visitors, and community members are invited to take part in this Day of Service. Volunteers will perform various landscaping, clean-up, painting, and other beautifying tasks at the school.
Details are available on the City of West Hollywood’s Community Engagement and Volunteer Opportunities website page at www.weho.org/volunteer and there is a link to a registration volunteer portal on that page. Volunteers are requested to register in advance and must be 13 years of age or older to participate. All registered volunteers will receive confirmation and check-in details.
This year’s City of West Hollywood Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service will also include a two-week virtual donation drive to benefit the West Hollywood Homeless Initiative. It will run from Friday, January 12, 2024 through Wednesday, January 31, 2024. Visit www.weho.org/vounteer for details; donations can be made directly online at https://secure.qgiv.com/for/homeless.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day federal holiday was designated as a National Day of Service by Congress in 1994. Each year, the City of West Hollywood participates in this call to action. For more information about #MLKDay of Service activities and recognitions across the nation, please visit Martin Luther King, Jr., National Day of Service | AmeriCorps.
For more information about the City of West Hollywood’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event, please contact Larissa Fooks, the City of West Hollywood’s Community Programs Coordinator, at (323) 848-6413 or at [email protected].
These are great and important events.
Bravo WeHo.
Last year’s service day was touching, proving that people still can come together at a time when I really needed the reminder!
Everything was great until I read about the “West Hollywood Homeless Initiative”, which I am certain only encourages more homeless and deranged people to settle on our public sidewalks. Freebies, free housing, 24 hour public toilets, “look the other way” when they use our public sidewalks as their toilets and on and on. Is that the “Homeless Initiative”?