On Saturday of this past weekend, we conducted the first Friends of Friedrichshafen Youth Exchange service project. The local building owned by Family House - a group that offers inexpensive housing for families facing a medical crisis - had overgrown landscaping. It once was beautiful, but was now bordering on uruly. FOF to the rescue!
Several of our students, along with their host parents, pitched in to pull weeds, trim bushes, clip vines and otherwise beautify the grounds. With so many hands pitching in, we were done in very short order!
Family House management as well as others familiar with the property commented that our efforts made a terrific improvement. One went so far as to say the grounds hadn't looked this good in five years!
We were more than happy to begin a new tradition in our youth exchange program. It is only right and fitting that we begin to give back to the communities that have made our terrific program possible. We look forward to next year's service project in Friedrichshafen!
A Peoria Journal Star reporter came to learn about our project and our exchange. Read the article for yourself.
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