The Pittsburgh 3rd Service Platoon is a new group of volunteers that are ready to mobilize Pittsburgh’s veteran population–asking them to help refugees living in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. After months of recruiting, planning and collaboration, the newly-born platoon kicked off with their first service project last Saturday.

The amount of work that 50 volunteers were able to get done in a day’s worth of service was incredible. I [Stephanie] saw local community members participate in the project who were immigrants from all over the world– Afghanistan, Thailand, Nepal, Morocco and Sudan, just to name a few.

This project showed Pittsburgh and the world that service unites people.

Read the full article by Stephanie Grimes about community service from the Mission Continues Blog