Have you ever wondered if you can change the world? On the other hand, have you ever felt like there are limitations to what you can achieve because you think you’re too young or too inexperience? Paige Young (Environmental Director for Mansfield, MA 02048) doesn’t think so. And because of her unshakable desire to change the world, her community is now a cleaner, better place.
On Saturday Oct. 31, Paige and 11 volunteer participants spent the morning cleaning up the grounds of Mansfield High School. Because they all attend Mansfield High, Paige and her group took the litter piling up around their school personally, and decided to take action. In the process, they collected over 1,500 items of trash and recyclable material (see her Activity Report below)!
“It went really well and we cleaned up around our turf as well as our main school grounds and field hockey field,” Paige stated in an e-mail to us. “Everyone seemed to really enjoy it…”
Although Paige is a relatively new member of the Clean World Movement, she got off to a quick start with her campaign. Since joining the Movement on Oct. 7, Paige conducted the Mansfield High cleanup, and has already begun planning and organizing several upcoming activities.
She has also developed a relationship with members of her town’s Beautification Committee. In fact, the committee not only provided the trash bags and gloves for the event, they also arranged for the material Paige and her group collected to be removed after the cleanup! This proved to be a great help to Paige and her team.
We highly encourage all of our team members to follow Paige’s lead and seek out help in your community- especially if you want to make a difference, but don’t have the ability to cover the cost of supplies and/or removal of the collected material.
The CWM team would like to thank Paige and her group again for their outstanding effort in the Mansfield area, and wish them a happy and safe holiday season. They are living examples that changing the world is easy. You just have to try.
Activity Report from Paige Young's Cleanup: Oct. 31, 2009
Some of Paige Young's Volunteer Participants (Oct. 31, 2009)
Posted By: Gordon Alford, CWM Director
