Adopt-A-Highway
Our chapter's main ongoing service project is the Adopt-A-Highway program. We clean up a mile-long stretch of highway on Brown Deer Road, a few miles north of Milwaukee. The stretch is around where 76th Street crosses Brown Deer Road. As per the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's regulations, we are to clean up the highway at least three times per year. We try to make this a community event, and anyone who wants to help out is definitely invited to do so. It really is a lot more fun than "just picking up garbage".
> Highway Pickup Handbook (Microsoft Word Document)
To learn more about Wisconsin's "Adopt-A-Highway" program, please click the sign below:
RAK-A-Thon
Each semester, the UWM chapter participates in the RAK-a-thon service event through the UWM Center for Volunteerism & Student Leadership. RAK stands for "Random Acts of Kindness" and involves helping elderly homeowners in the Milwaukee area winterize their homes. This includes raking leaves, putting up storm windows, painting porches, trimming shrubbery, etc. This is a really great way to give back directly to the community and the people we meet are very interesting. Click here to read a press release about the RAK-a-thon.