Community Service

The Community Service Program at St. Andrew's lies at the center of the School's commitment to encourage our students to reach out and care for others. St. Andrew's identifies numerous opportunities for students to serve on the local, regional, and global levels. Students can participate in programs individually, as a part of teams or organizations on campus (such as the Student Vestry, musical groups or clubs), as dormitory groups, as a form or sometimes with the entire School.

Over 70 percent of our students are involved in community service projects each year. These projects are directed by a student committee and supervised by a group of faculty, though many students and faculty also become informally involved. Here are some of the programs to which St. Andrew's students and faculty volunteer their time:

• Adaptive PE:

  Students help physically challenged children swim in the pool.

• Andrew's Place Soup Kitchen:

  Students deliver and serve dinner to residents of a homeless shelter in Wilmington.

• Recycling:

  Students sort, collect and deliver recyclables in our campus recycling program.

• St. Mark's College:

  Students organize and direct annual fundraising projects to help support our sister school in a rural black township in South Africa.

• Silver Lake and St. Anne's Tutors:

  Students volunteer an hour a week as teacher assistants in the local elementary school.

• Sunday School:

  VI Formers design and teach a Sunday School curriculum for faculty children on Sunday mornings during the academic year. They also organize events such as the Christmas pageant and Easter egg hunt each year.