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Architecture students took responsibility from site analysis and community consultation through budgeting and construction, creating a 68-square-metre daycare for 25 children and one teacher.
Thirty university students and teachers from Metro Manila and Cebu worked together for ten days to build a 100-metre access road from the main highway to the community cemetery.
More than 180 postgraduate students spent four days planning, organising and physically transforming the outdoor grounds of Carew II Family Centre for local families and community groups.
Twenty-five students worked with the local community in El Chino to build two primary-school classrooms, 20 desks and 20 chairs, providing furnished classrooms for full-day education.
Students from several construction and foundation programmes planned, designed, built and planted a sensory garden for residents of Belong care home.
Architecture students and Melusi residents co-designed and built a satellite youth centre and an addition to a community clinic, providing extra service space and a sheltered patient waiting area.
A student-originated project financed solar-panel installation for five off-grid households in Kapiyo, replacing reliance on candles for lighting and helping children study after dark.
Year 12 students are restoring 18 garden benches for the Peninsula Health Palliative Care Unit, using woodwork, design, planning and budgeting skills in a real community project.
Students designed and created a sensory garden with tactile plants, aromatic herbs, colourful flowers and sensory pathways, integrating the work into a job-readiness programme.
Ten communication students worked with Indonesian school students through interactive sessions and SDG-themed activities, building sustainability awareness and communication skills.
Grade 8 students raised funds and joined work to provide new sanitation facilities for Panchkhola Primary School, benefiting pupils who needed better toilets.
Student volunteers work with TECHO to help construct homes for families living in poverty in communities around Santa Cruz.
Around 120 senior students helped build two prefabricated homes for two families from their own school community, carrying materials, assembling the houses and painting them.
Thirty Grade 10–12 students worked with TECHO over two days to build three homes for families in Nueva España after their school community raised funds for the project.
Students raised US$3,000 and completed a water-well project at Chai Primary School, creating a sustainable water source for the school and wider community.
Second-grade students raised $10,430.55 in 2025–26 for clean-water projects benefiting schools and communities in Uganda, Haiti, Kenya and Ghana.
Sixth-grade students raised $5,430 in 2025–26 to support water projects, including Saadani Primary School in Tanzania and water delivery in the United States.
Students raised $3,000 in 2025–26 for the Nasaruni Academy bathrooms project in Kenya, continuing a multi-year student clean-water and sanitation programme.
Eighth-grade Global Studies students raised $1,690 in 2025–26 toward drilling and installing a well serving a school community in South Sudan.
Eighth-grade students raised $840 in 2025–26 for a clean-water project serving a school community in South Sudan after studying the global water crisis.
Sixth-grade students raised $2,583.80 in 2025–26 for clean-water projects benefiting Daries Salaam COG Primary School in Sierra Leone and a school in South Sudan.
Students raised $2,007.88 in 2025–26 for a clean-water project benefiting 70 people at Prathmik Balika Vidhyalaya Jelu in India.
The student-led Interact Club raised $3,537 in 2025–26 for water projects serving schools and communities in Honduras, Uganda and South Sudan.
Students raised $12,907 in 2025–26 for water projects benefiting Kakamega High School and Kathungu Primary School in Kenya and Pamin-lok oola in Uganda.
Students held a Walk for Water to raise funds for a water and sanitation project at St. Mugagga Junior School in Uganda.
Four Flinders students joined 35 students from other Round Square schools to build an irrigation dam and install 110 solar-powered lights connecting two villages. The students moved about 20 tonnes of rock and hundreds of barrows of concrete.
Students in welding and boiler-making worked with Paiporta council to restore flood-damaged public furniture, including benches and railings.
Mechanical-design and electromechanical students designed and manufactured removable barriers to protect homes against future flooding.
Welding students manufactured durable replacement furniture for Colegio María Inmaculada in Alfafar after the school was badly damaged by flooding.
Students fabricated and installed bicycle and scooter parking at educational centres affected by flooding, replacing infrastructure while supporting active travel.
Early-years education students created and delivered emotional-support activities using children's literature for 2–3-year-olds affected by the floods at Escuela Infantil Niños de Picanya.
Students undertake service and leadership projects through Changemakers, Community Projects and upper-school initiatives, using student action to address community needs and support social causes.
Students lead practical community activities including preparing food baskets, fundraising to help build a school, cleaning beaches and running environmental projects with communities in need.
School-based student clubs identify community problems, plan practical solutions and implement volunteer projects; the programme has created more than 120 clubs across Kosovo.
Students propose, plan and carry out projects that must provide a direct, measurable benefit to communities in Laos, with grants and mentoring supporting approved student-led initiatives.
Boarding students organised and carried out a community clean-up in East Boroko, giving practical service to the surrounding neighbourhood while promoting student-led servant leadership.
Students made nearly 1,000 mud bricks for a nearby orphan-headed household as part of the school's community-service programme, connecting student work with a specific local need.
Students complete community service through activities including beach and neighbourhood clean-ups, feeding people in need, clothing drives, assisting primary and secondary schools and providing useful expertise to local businesses.
Students complete age-linked voluntary service hours addressing a problem or need in the community, giving pupils practical responsibility for contributing beyond the school.
Learners from ten school clubs took part in practical community service, including cleaning Roan Market, Luanshya CBD and Mpatamatu Market, alongside peer work on mental health, volunteerism and responsible citizenship.
Grade 5 students developed projects focused on accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities, with Accessible Jordan participating in the exhibition and reviewing the work.
Students investigated how to make the local Ginga-dori shopping street easier and more attractive for junior-high and high-school students to use. They approached the problem from a high-school perspective and surveyed local restaurants as part of the investigation.
High-school students worked with others on local challenges through interviews, fieldwork and demonstration experiments. Projects included a shopping-street morning market and a student town-walking workshop designed to share the area's attractions.
Seventh-grade students and high-school students formed teams to plan the procurement and sale of local products in the Ikuno Hondori Chuo Shopping Street, creating a student-led event intended to bring activity to the shopping street.
A student documented ways local students could help attract people to shopping streets, drawing on local examples where high-school and university students ran stalls and younger students created road maps promoting the shopping street and surrounding area.
A student planned and ran a Christmas event with the local shopping-street association to strengthen connections between the street and neighbouring residents. The event attracted 164 participants and recorded 56 purchase receipts totalling ¥85,070; the shopping-street director credited it with making a significant contribution.
High-school students worked alongside community residents in a local shopping street as participating members of the community. The long-running activity was designed to strengthen connections between students, residents and the shopping street.
Students investigated Vigo's O Merdeiro carnival tradition and related fishing, farming, oral poetry and music. They interviewed parents and grandparents, learnt from local associations and fish-net makers, and took part in a music workshop. The project connected students directly with community knowledge-bearers and helped them explore and understand local living heritage.
Students investigated the traditional Ukrainian mazanka mud-house technique across several subjects, visited nearby villages to study surviving houses, experimented with building materials and learnt traditional construction techniques by helping a local community restore a mazanka. The activity moved beyond studying heritage to helping keep the practice alive through real community work.
Opened a school-based hub offering a food pantry, free adult English lessons, family activities, wellbeing sessions and advice services to parents and local residents.
The school partnered in a community learning hub providing education alongside childcare, kindergarten, youth, health and community services for local residents. The school and hub opened in 2008.
A completed joint-use library and community facility, developed with Hilltops Council, provides shared learning and community space for students and local residents.
Under a long-term agreement with the City of West Torrens, local residents can use the school’s recreational grounds outside school hours, increasing access to neighbourhood open space.
Local residents transformed unused and derelict land into a community growing space and hub. The volunteer-led project now combines gardening, meals, children's activities, cooking and digital support to reduce isolation and build local connections.
Local volunteers work with remote communities on education, health, disaster resilience and practical improvements such as school and water-tap repairs, libraries and supplies. The organisation says every project begins by listening to local communities.
Residents contributed cash, materials and labour to build a weather-protected community centre for meetings, education, health outreach, social events and future income generation.
The Indigenous-led project is installing solar energy, training local people and expanding clean-energy access across ten Amazon communities while protecting biodiversity.
More than 800 households earned income while restoring irrigation ponds, roads and drinking-water systems damaged by the September 2024 floods and landslides.
Residents in flood-affected communities worked collectively on locally led measures to protect land, access and livelihoods after years of severe seasonal flooding.
Parents, local artisans and residents contributed labour, materials and funds to repair the community kindergarten, creating a safer learning environment for 79 children.
Students, teachers, residents and environmental volunteers swept classrooms, cleared blocked drains and removed plastic and household waste before the new academic year.
111 volunteers cleared an illegal dumpsite, unblocked drainage channels, segregated waste and reclaimed cleaner public space.
Residents and local stakeholders cleared debris and unblocked stormwater drains along Kijiwe Nongwa Road to improve rainwater flow and reduce flooding risk.
Parents, barangay officials, alumni, partners, teachers and staff cleaned and landscaped school grounds, repainted classrooms and repaired damaged furniture before the academic year.
241 employee volunteers repaired classrooms and an ageing stage, repainted ceilings and repaired desks and chairs to improve the local children's learning environment.
More than 30 residents, including children, young people and adults, have participated in designing and constructing shared improvements on Portete Island using local materials and techniques.
Volunteers and communities built 634 emergency homes during 2025, directly benefiting more than 2,850 people across neighbourhoods in Argentina.
Community workers and about 50 volunteers prepared, painted and revitalised more than 30 building facades in Jardim Colombo.
Around 100 volunteers cleaned roads and green spaces around Toyosu, collecting and separating bottles, cans, plastic bottles, cigarette waste and other rubbish.
More than 50 volunteers and community members collect litter, clear illegal dumping sites, sweep streets and sort recyclable materials in an ongoing weekday clean-up campaign.
Fifty community members trained in road maintenance and improved a 250-metre road section, built 200 metres of stone side drain and installed 14 metres of culverts.
More than 230 volunteers painted 14 classrooms, seven hallways and four staircases, refurbished 40 chairs and completed separate changing rooms.
Volunteers and local participants help grow and maintain an open shared telecommunications network that improves digital connectivity and treats network infrastructure as a community commons.
Residents contribute routers, rooftop locations and technical skills to build and maintain a free community wireless network.
Residents and volunteers build and maintain a community-owned wireless network connecting people across Athens and surrounding areas.
Volunteers rate the wheelchair accessibility of public places and toilets, add missing places and photographs, creating practical accessibility information that other people can use.
Vacant town-centre shops were offered for temporary pop-ups so new businesses could test ideas and attract customers. Nine pop-ups became long-term lets, five businesses settled permanently, vacant units fell and customer traffic on Linzer Straße increased by 43%.
Local creatives were given empty high-street shop windows and vacant retail space for exhibitions, workshops and community activity. The project has run across multiple Bedford town-centre windows since 2022, turning unused spaces into public creative displays.
Volunteers temporarily transform empty shops and other neglected high-street spaces with hand-painted art linked to local history, landscape and culture. The programme aims to improve vacant properties and bring renewed attention and activity to Monmouth town centre.
The charity brought together residents, volunteers, schools, youth groups, artists, businesses, estate agents and the town council to fill empty Fordingbridge shop windows with locally made displays. The long-term aim is to make the town centre more inviting and visually appealing.
A community-led public art trail used shop windows across The Blue as an advent calendar, revealing a new display each day. A printed and online map led visitors around local businesses, creating a reason to explore the town centre and high street.
Community volunteers interviewed and photographed more than 20 Hounslow High Street business owners, recording stories that had often never been captured before. The stories informed new artworks and an exhibition, with six works displayed in local shops and spaces as a high-street art trail.
Community interviews and local research became a street-long exhibition and heritage trail. Thirteen exhibits were placed in shop windows with two more in public venues; more than 500 people took a trail guide, helping visitors see the high street and its shopkeepers differently.
Empty High Street properties were used for short-term pop-up shops as part of a wider town-centre partnership. The scheme attracted more than 1,300 visits and around £6,500 in trader sales, while giving people a new reason to visit the centre.
Community volunteers collected oral histories about Liverpool's Somali heritage through heritage picnic sessions. The stories and memories were shared through a celebration event, video blogs, a Somali-language booklet for older community members and a website, preserving knowledge that might otherwise have been lost.
Local people shared memories and experiences of living and working in Peckham and Camberwell through an oral-history project. The material contributes to an archive and interactive community map that links people's memories to places in the local social, architectural and cultural landscape.
Community-run neighbourhood watch where residents contribute to local safety and can volunteer time and expertise.