Langley’s 2024 Day of Service

Langley Federal Credit Union employees, friends, and family members honored Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life of service on January 15, 2024 by volunteering at nonprofit organizations across the communities Langley serves. About 220 volunteers completed 15 projects . Volunteers completed a variety of service projects across Hampton Roads and in Langley’s new communities of Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA where Langley opened two branches in September and October 2023 respectively.

“We are so proud of all who gave their time to volunteer in observance of this important day for Langley,” said Jerome Fowlkes, Langley’s CHRO and Langley for Families Foundation Board Member, “Nearly thirty percent of all Langley employees participated, which is a 50% increase from last year and the most who have joined since Langley began observing MLK Jr. Day as a Day of Service in 2020.” Fowlkes also added “We are especially grateful for our team members in Richmond and Raleigh for taking on projects. With both branches having opened so recently, their participation powerfully demonstrates their commitment to making a positive difference both financially and socially in the communities we serve.”

Over the course of the day, Langley volunteers:

• removed landscaping debris, laid new mulch, and built a bench for the Center for Child & Family Services in Newport News
• sorted and bagged 12,860 pounds of food, equating to about 10,700 meals, at the Foodbank of Central and Eastern North Carolina in Raleigh
• Reorganized food donations, deep cleaned food storage racks, and painted the welcome center at the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and Eastern Shore in Norfolk
• conducted a winter clean-up and reorganization of office and storage space at the Gloucester Mathews Care Clinic in Gloucester
• tidied up the outdoor dog trails, built a big cat home, and washed the walls of the facility at the Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society in Gloucester
• organized donations in the warehouse at Helping the Homeless in Gloucester
• painted the outside areas and filled about 50 forty-gallon trash bags cleaning the outdoor spaces of LGBT Life Center‘s new medical and counseling facility in Hampton
• donations of food, clothing, and hygiene supplies, moved furniture, painted bookshelves, and beatified the lobby of LGBT Life Center‘s office in Norfolk
• broke down and removed six beds and other large appliances at a safehouse for survivors of human trafficking to make room for new furniture and improve the living space at The Samaritan House in Virginia Beach
• constructed 25 beds for children experiencing housing insecurity at Sleep in Heavenly Peace in Hampton
• created functional and welcoming spaces for individuals with disabilities by cleaning and organizing areas where programs are held at SOAR365 in Richmond
• sorted 434 pounds of food and distributed 1,993 pounds of food serving 37 families at “The Market at THRIVE,” the Virginia Peninsula’s first free grocery store, for THRIVE Peninsula in Newport News
• assembled 100 customized wooden flags for families of fallen first responders and wounded warriors at Valhalla’s Forge in Virginia Beach
• assembled, packed, loaded, and palletized around 720 boxes of food for use at distribution sites that will serve individuals and families experiencing food insecurity at the Virginia Peninsula Foodbank in Hampton
• cleaned, prepared, and set up 19 Emergency Shelter guest rooms and assembled 20 welcome baskets for survivors of violence at the YWCA of South Hampton Roads in Norfolk

 

 

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