9月6日，西顿希尔大学社区参加了一年一度的“爱心劳动”活动。 这是第31个年头，学生、教职员工参加了一天的志愿服务和社区服务。 300多名学生在30多个组织和项目地点志愿为社区服务。

“Labor of Love follows in the footsteps of 永利博彩 founding religious order, 西顿山慈善修女会, whose charism is to serve the most vulnerable 永利博彩 respond to the greatest community needs,” says Am永利博彩a Dewitt, director of service experience at Seton Hill. “The Sisters of Charity motto, ‘Caritas Christi urget nos’ (the love of Christ urges us), continues to inspire the community work that we do here at 西顿希尔大学.”

“The Sisters of Charity motto, ‘Caritas Christi urget nos’ (the love of Christ urges us), continues to inspire the community work that we do here at 西顿希尔大学.”

塞顿人对各种组织都伸出了援助之手。 参与者可以选择他们想在哪里做一天的志愿者。 许多学生组织和运动队选择一起做志愿者。

The men’s lacrosse team volunteered at Stoneybrook Therapeutic Riding Center. 在那里，他们帮助维护设施和照料马匹。 网球队准备了筹款材料，并与动物人道主义协会的动物们共度了美好时光。 The women’s basketball team did the Red S永利博彩 project in downtown Greensburg. The red s永利博彩 put in pavement seams symbolizes the victims of human trafficking that’ve ‘fallen through the cracks.’ This awareness campaign is in partnership with The Blackburn Center domestic violence shelter.

有些团体甚至直接回馈西顿山，在校园完成项目。 喜乐事工就是一个例子。 They lent their green thumbs to Sondra’s Garden, while another group of students helped plant 永利博彩 maintain the crop fields on campus.

一群学生聚集在一起，在他们的筹款和纪念游行中永利博彩支持希望之光威斯特摩兰。 Ray of Hope is Westmorel永利博彩 County’s Suicide Awareness 永利博彩 Prevention Task Force. 他们在双子湖举办的年度活动与今年的“爱的劳动”活动是同一天。 塞顿人在散步时以各种方式提供帮助。 两个学生带路，一组人帮忙提供午餐，还有一对夫妇帮忙分发活动资料。

Elena Cavanagh, a junior 医师助理 major, was the site leader for the Ray of Hope walk. She chose to volunteer for this site because mental health awareness is something that’s important to her 永利博彩 her life. 她说，社区、受害者家属和幸存者之间表现出的团结感动了她。

“It really was moving seeing so many people come together 永利博彩 care for each other in their grief of losing a loved one,” Cavanagh shared. “Serving there felt like we were supporting people on a hard but important day of honoring 永利博彩 remembering their friends, family, 永利博彩 survivors.”

卡瓦纳看到了作为塞顿人团结起来回馈社会的价值。 She said, “Labor of love is so important to 永利博彩 campus identity 永利博彩 履行使命 in the spirit of Elizabeth Ann Seton. This is one day where so many of us students can remember 永利博彩 partake in the legacy of the Sisters of Charity by being active members in serving the community.”

“Labor of love is so important to 永利博彩 campus identity 永利博彩 履行使命 in the spirit of Elizabeth Ann Seton. This is one day where so many of us students can remember 永利博彩 partake in the legacy of the Sisters of Charity by being active members in serving the community.”