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ThunderCares Day goes globalThunderCares Day goes global

Thunderbird students and alumni around the world did their part in September to improve their communities during the inaugural Global ThunderCares Day.

T-birds in Los Angeles helped pick up trash along Redondo Beach. Hong Kong alumni helped Crossroads Foundation inspect computer monitors and pack them for shipment to schools in Kazakhstan and Uganda. And students, alumni and other volunteers in Arizona donated their time at a food bank, an animal shelter, a charter school and six other locations.

“The fact that we have so many people participating has been a testament to Thunderbird’s willingness to help the community,” said Thunderbird student Jessica Bellama, who helped provide career and education counseling for Sudanese refugees at the AZ Lost Boys Center in Phoenix.

Several other alumni chapters also participated in the global event, which grew out of a campus program started in 2006 as a way to connect Thunderbird students to the Phoenix community.

Thunderbird Student Government community outreach coordinator Ermelinda Carvajal and other organizers of the global day of service plan to develop the program into an annual event on the third Saturday of each September.