AFL-CIO Community Services Director Will Fischer describes union volunteer efforts at a community crisis center in Georgia.

Nearly 50 union brothers and sisters from across the state of Georgia took time out in recent days to lend a hand to a Georgia community. Working with the United Way of Coastal Georgia, participants in the Georgia AFL-CIO Community Services’ Legislative and Organizing Conference provided much-needed repairs, maintenance and sprucing up at the Glynn Community Crisis Center.

The center is a nonprofit organization located in coastal Georgia, providing services to women and children in domestic violence situations.

Union volunteers brought their skills, muscle and caring to the project and completed a long list of repairs. These repairs and installations included rewiring light fixtures, installing exterior lighting, rebuilding a rotted porch, replacing and re-plumbing sinks, constructing a storage bin, installing fencing, installing shower curtain rods and much, much more. Said Georgia AFL-CIO Program Support Specialist Carol DuBose:

This was a great day of volunteering and something our members were excited to participate in. Ensuring people in need have access to facilities like the Glynn Community Crisis Center is very important and the labor movement was and is ready to help any way that we can.

This is the third year conference attendees have partnered with the Crisis Center. For more information, contact Carol DuBose at 404-525-2793.

Is your local union involved in projects like this or other community service work? We’d love to highlight it. Please e-mail communityservices@aflcio.org.