Take a glance around your office, clinic or classroom and you’ll find Blazers who make the world better, even outside their time at UAB.
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A group of eight student volunteers from the Honors College helped rebuild roads, clear deadfall logs and sticks and cleaning horse fields at Red Barn, a family-run organization that teaches low-income children with disabilities to ride horses.
In pre-pandemic times, volunteers would assist with horse-riding practice or play games with children. Honors College student and group coordinator Cole Barefoot says that the work his cohort did might not have been traditional but was still meaningful.
“While the manifest purpose of tasks performed is to ease the workload of the only property manager, Mr. Jason, and to clean the property, the latent purpose is far deeper,” Barefoot said. “Although we are not directly helping the kids of The Red Barn, we are helping them more than we can imagine.”
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A group of eight student volunteers from the Honors College helped rebuild roads, clear deadfall logs and sticks and cleaning horse fields at Red Barn, a family-run organization that teaches low-income children with disabilities to ride horses.
In pre-pandemic times, volunteers would assist with horse-riding practice or play games with children. Honors College student and group coordinator Cole Barefoot says that the work his cohort did might not have been traditional but was still meaningful.
“While the manifest purpose of tasks performed is to ease the workload of the only property manager, Mr. Jason, and to clean the property, the latent purpose is far deeper,” Barefoot said. “Although we are not directly helping the kids of The Red Barn, we are helping them more than we can imagine.”
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A group of eight student volunteers from the Honors College helped rebuild roads, clear deadfall logs and sticks and cleaning horse fields at Red Barn, a family-run organization that teaches low-income children with disabilities to ride horses.
In pre-pandemic times, volunteers would assist with horse-riding practice or play games with children. Honors College student and group coordinator Cole Barefoot says that the work his cohort did might not have been traditional but was still meaningful.
“While the manifest purpose of tasks performed is to ease the workload of the only property manager, Mr. Jason, and to clean the property, the latent purpose is far deeper,” Barefoot said. “Although we are not directly helping the kids of The Red Barn, we are helping them more than we can imagine.”
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A group of eight student volunteers from the Honors College helped rebuild roads, clear deadfall logs and sticks and cleaning horse fields at Red Barn, a family-run organization that teaches low-income children with disabilities to ride horses.
In pre-pandemic times, volunteers would assist with horse-riding practice or play games with children. Honors College student and group coordinator Cole Barefoot says that the work his cohort did might not have been traditional but was still meaningful.
“While the manifest purpose of tasks performed is to ease the workload of the only property manager, Mr. Jason, and to clean the property, the latent purpose is far deeper,” Barefoot said. “Although we are not directly helping the kids of The Red Barn, we are helping them more than we can imagine.”
The UAB Reporter wants to know how people in your unit volunteer — whether it’s at a local nonprofit or in a clinic across the world. Submit a publicity request with the details and a group selfie for a chance to be featured in Behind the Scenes. Find volunteer opportunities on BlazerPulse.
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