TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - Tallahassee Community College (TCC) takes part in the second annual MLK Day of Service in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Its part of United We Serve, a national call-to-service initiative. It calls for Americans from all walks of life to work together to provide solutions to our most pressing national problems.
Last year's local Day of Service brought in over 120 volunteers who served a combined 488 hours at eight different non-profits around Tallahassee. Those included the Big Bend Homeless Coalition, American Red Cross, Leon County Humane Society, Second Harvest of the Big Bend and the TCC Community Garden.
Ryan Rogers, TCC's Service Learning and Civic Engagement coordinator, tells us they enjoy being a part of the community.
"We definitely want to be in the community, and on many occasions even our presidents says ' We very much love being a community college'," said Rogers. "So that's really what we're striving for. To really have the community come on to campus and us to go out into the community. So it really effects some change."
