`Canes Reaching Out to the Miami Rescue Mission Staff
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami athletic department is teaming with the Miami Rescue Mission Staff to put on several community service events over the next five days, beginning with a clinic and dinner Friday afternoon. This is part of an ACC initiative that has all conference schools performing community service projects during this time.
Between Friday, April 1 and Sunday, April 5, all of UM’s teams will devote some of their time to those less fortunate in the South Florida region.
The efforts will begin with a the soccer team organizing materials from the Bargain Barn early Friday afternoon, before holding a clinic at the MRMS’s Community Activity Center on 2025 NW 1st Avenue.
Later Friday night, the UM swimming & diving team will join forces with the volleyball program to help serve dinner from 4-6 p.m.
The service will then pick back up on Sunday, when the rowing team will help serve lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed by the football team helping out with dinner and spending time with the families in the early afternoon.
On Monday, the UM women’s tennis team will help organize materials from the Bargain Barn in the morning, before an afternoon of games will take place with members of the baseball team, golf team, track and field team and men’s tennis team.
Finally, on Tuesday the men’s and women’s basketball teams will hold a clinic at the Community Activity Center and hold a Q&A session with the children.
The Miami Rescue Mission is an organization that to move an increasing number of homeless individuals from isolation to inclusion as accountable and productive members of the community with human compassion and the love of God. Since their founding in 1922, the Miami Rescue Mission has continued to serve “the least, the last and the lost,” and give them hope for a better life.
