2022
Our Journey Through Volunteering
12/04/22: Winter Wonder
At one of Queens Botanical's special events, Winter Wonder, QueensYVC volunteers helped to assist with visitors greetings and activities booth like making Christmas accessories and other wonderful crafts
Thank you to all the volunteers who helped out at the event!
11/20/22: Corona Park Cleanup 🍂
Thank you to the 30+ volunteers who came to our cleanup event at Corona Park. We collected 13 bags of trash, several abandoned grills and cardboxes.
11/19/22: Powell Cove Park Cleanup 🌊
We partnered up with Coastal Preservation Network (Queens) to help clean up the coastal areas of Powell Cove Park! Despite the frigidity of yesterday, many of us had fun and it was rewarding to know that we were able to reduce the pollution found in our coastal environment; We collected 21 bags of trash plus assorted larger items like a chair, a door, a hose and a mattress
11/12/22: Highland Park Community Garden
A group of us - around 12 volunteers- came to help out at Highland Park's Community Garden, where we did leaf removal, compost, harvest certain plots, and many other things. Thank you so much to everyone who volunteered and helped out at the garden
11/12/22: Planting Tulips in Mrs.Cilmi's Garden
With Friends of Crocheron, we planted many tulips in Mrs. Cilmi's Garden. We look forward to seeing them bloom in the spring 🌷
11/05/22: Crocheron Park Cleanup
Our QueensYVC cleanup event took place today at Crocheron Park. Since the park is vast, our volunteers split into groups of threes and fours to help pick up litter in different of the park. Thank you to everyone who volunteered! We collected around 20 pounds of litter!
P.S: Check out the autumnal beauty of crocheron park. Photo credits to our superb volunteer director, Jennfer, and our amazing volunteers, Daniel and Nickolas
10/29/22: Urban Science Day at QBG 🎃
In preparation for Queens Botanical Garden's Halloween festival on October 30th, QueensYVC volunteers helped decorate the botanical garden with bright pumpkins and spooky decorations.
Happy Halloween in Advance <3
10/26/22: QHSS Daffodil Planting
We planted around 30 daffodils in honor of the Daffodil Project at Queens High School for the Sciences at York College! Great thanks to Friends of Crocheron for providing us tools and daffodil bulbs for this event!
10/23/22: Urban Science Day at QBG
Today we volunteered at Queens Botanical Garden's science event, where we help make science fun for youths! We helped assisting visitor check ins and fun activities booths like decorating hydroponics.
10/22/22: Daffodil Project with
Friends of Crocheron🌼
Volunteering with @friendsofcrocheron to plant daffodils to support the Daffodil Project 🌼! We also removed litter around Crocheron Park and helped decorate Friends of Crocheron's Bulletin Board!
The NY4P Daffodil Project is a living memorial for the victims of 9/11 and the recent COVID pandemic. Ever since its establishment in 2001, over 9 million daffodil bulbs were distributed, planted in fall, and bloomed in spring.
10/15/22: Pumpkin Patch Event
Volunteers helped set up the patch and greeted visitors to the garden! Many also had fun helping out with the many activities the event offered.
10/10/22: Mrs Cilmi Beautification Event
On October 10th, 2022, we volunteered to weed in Mrs. Cilmi's Pollinator Garden as well as to curb and remove litter in Crocheron Park! We did a lot of work and had lots of fun- 10/10 volunteering experience ✨
One frequent QueensYVC volunteer described her experience volunteering with Friends of Crocheron at the park:
"Despite the work being laborious at times, the experience of volunteering with Friends of Crocheron is very enjoyable. I have volunteered at Crocheron park many times before and helping out in the pollinator garden is always a joy as I get to help the flora (through weeding/watering) while having fun with friends!"
09/24 & 09/25: Compost Pa Looza
We volunteered at Queens Botanical Garden's very first annual Compost-Pa-Looza festival! We helped out with several stations and booths and had fun. It was great to volunteer at one of their amazing events!
09/16/22: Painting Benches at Crocheron Park
Working with Friends of Crocheron, We helped repaint the benches at Crocheron Park, as well as maintaining Mrs.Cilmi's garden via weeding and watering.
09/10/22
Today, we held our very first QueensYVC park clean up event! We collected many pounds of litter scattered across Kissena Park. Thank you to those who strive to help make our community better- whether it be in humanitarian or environmental aspects!
09/04/22
We volunteered at Kehilat Food Pantry, where we bag a multitude of vegetables and fruits and distribute them to the needy. We also learned a lot about kosher food while volunteering!
08/13/22 & 08/27/22: Food Distribution
We volunteered at La Jornada, which is now temporarily located at Pan American International High School in Corona. We helped flatten boxes, bag vegetables like onions, and distributed boxes of mixtures of a variety cooked dishes.
08/06/22: Mrs Cilmi Garden Beautification
Volunteering with Friends of Crocheron Park, we watered flowers in Mrs.Cilmi's Garden and pulled out several weeds! Thank you to everyone who volunteered!
07/23/22: La Jornada!
07/16/22
Working with Friends of Crocheron Park, we watered plants, weeded weeds like Morning Glory, and raked leaves in Mrs.Cilmi's Garden. Unfortunately, it started raining an hour after we started volunteering T-T But REGARDLESS it went well!
07/17: Due to the fact that our organization has only been holding projects and events in Queens, our administrative team has decided to rebrand.
From this point forward, our organization will be called: Queens Youth Volunteer Community (abbreviated as QueensYVC)
06/04/22
From 9 AM - 1 PM, NYCYVS Volunteers helped at La Jornada with bagging and distribution of various kinds of food such as canned fruits and veggies, noodles, grains, etc.
05/21/22
Volunteering with Friends of Crocheron Park, we removed litter: glass shards, tiny bits of plastic, etc. These are all things that can hinder our park's environment if they're not removed. We also helped with edging and weeding in Mrs. Cilmi's Garden!
05/01/22 & 05/08/22
In Queens Botanical Gardens, we helped out with booth activities such as teaching kids how to make flower crowns and origami, supervising people, as well as teaching people how to plant flowers and take care of them. Many of us had lots of fun volunteering at our community's botanical garden! During our second volunteer event, we decorated roads with colorful chalks and handing out pots of beautiful flowers to people to gift them to their mothers (it was Mother's Day by the way)
04/16/22
Working together with Friends of Crocheron as well as the Kiwanis Queens East Division, NYCYVS helped with weeding, removing litter, edgining and mulching around the park. Thank you to everyone who helped out.
Photography Credits: M&M Photography & NYCYVS
04/09/22
Thanks to everyone who volunteered again on April 9th, 2022. We had several new volunteers, and I'd like to thank to those for quickly adapting to the work style. Just a notice, we'll be not volunteering at La Jornada for a while. We'll start volunteering at La Jornada around May 27.
04/02/22
Thanks to everyone who volunteered again on April 2nd, 2022. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend 💖
03/26/2022
We volunteered again at La Jornada after taking a week's break. I hope everyone had a lot of fun! Thank you to everyone who volunteered and especially to our new volunteers who quickly adapted to the volunteering style at La Jornada ☺️
Group Picture 03.26.22
03/13/2022
We volunteered at Kehilat Sephardim Food Pantry, a popular food pantry that serves food to over a thousand of citizens in Kews Garden Hill. It was quite a freezing shift today but nevertheless we had fun. As you can see below, one of our tasks was to package fresh grapes, flawless from moldiness or fungus. Moreover, we also had other food to distribute, such as fresh zucchinis, lettuce, onions, and watermelons. Thank you to everyone who has volunteered today and great thanks to the food pantry for the ongoing support for its community citizens 💞.
03/05/2022
We volunteered again at La Jornada. I guess La Jornada is now considered one of the "go to places" for our volunteering events now. It's still so amazing that all of us are able to do so much and contribute so much to our community. Today is another busy day at La Jornada that involves all of us doing different things such as bagging food, boxing and crating vegetables, clearing out boxes, and cleaning up the place. However, there are only 3 words that describes what makes today so unique: 'Illegal' Horse Chips
Like who would've expected that there are chips like these 🤣.
02/23/2022
During President's Week, so many of us volunteered once again at La Jornada. Today, La Jornada had no one but us and 3 other volunteers who supervises the place. Our main goal today is to pack as many food bags as we can and surprisingly, we managed to pack everything within 3 hours. Usually, it'll take us 5 hours - no even more than 5 hours to pack during the weekends, so it was a proud accomplishment for many of us. Haha I'm so proud of us 😌
02/12/2022
NYCYVS volunteered for the first time in the year of 2022 at La Jornada. Volunteering with over 20 other friends, volunteers, and peers, we all had a great time! Maybe the experience with onions may not be that fun, but the experience of volunteering with friends and peers was amazing.
