Campus & Community

H’ard Corps Kindness

Marc Halevi

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Nearly 300 students turned out for the first annual H’ARD CORPS (Harvard Community Outreach and Public Service) event on Saturday. Breaking into teams, they worked on 18 different projects in Boston and Cambridge, including site clean-up, gardening, visiting the elderly, and helping the Greater Boston Food Bank and AIDS Walk Boston . The event was held in conjunction with IVY CORPS, which consisted of 3,000 students from all the Ivies fanned out to help in their communities.

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Victoria DeKnight, 88 years old (left), a resident of the Cambridge Nursing Home, talks with Kumiko Ide ’02 at the Cambridge Nursing Home in Cambridge.
Steve Smith ’02, the event’s coordinator, organizes teams at the staging area in front of the Science Center.
Students walk Cambridge Nursing Home residents down Mass. Ave in Cambridge to get a snack at Dunkin’ Donuts in Porter Square.
Ashley Evans ’02 (foreground, right) cleans up at a pond behind the Alewife T Station in Cambridge.

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