(photo courtesy of Loyola High School)

Three hundred members of the Loyola High School community, including students, parents, faculty and alumni, participated in “A Day of Service” on April 16 to give back to the Los Angeles community. One of the Loyola crews worked at Habitat for Humanity’s house project for veterans in Pasadena (pictured), helping to start construction on a nine-unit housing complex. Participants helped prepare the foundations of the homes. Other projects included working with Operation Gratitude in Chatsworth, where they assembled and mailed hospitality and hygiene kits to U.S. troops in the Middle East; and a Special Olympics Basketball Clinic for the Greater Los Angeles Chapter in the Leavy Gym on the Loyola High School campus.

Participants worked on a spring beautification and gardening project at the Good Shepherd Shelter home for battered women and children in Pico Heights, and at an activities, recreation and care program for special needs adults and teens in North Hollywood. The day of service also included work at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in Vernon, where they assembled bags of food, and at St. Francis Center, south of downtown L.A., where they prepared and served breakfast and managed distribution at a weekly food pantry.

Loyola High School of Los Angeles is located at 1901 Venice Blvd. For information, call (213)381-5121, or visit www.loyolahs.edu.