Student Community Service is offering a free shuttle to transport volunteers every Thursday this semester from 12p.m. to 4p.m.

This offer is for anyone who will be volunteering their time and does not have a car of their own.

Rachel Fisher, the director of Student Community Service, said students can take advantage of this service in order to get to their intended place of whatever volunteering activity they are participating in. 

“You volunteer and we will do the driving,” she said. “Just call the agency in advance to arrange your volunteering and SCS will get you there.”

The Volunteer Shuttle is not the same as the Panther Shuttle because it is solely for people who are traveling to their destination of their volunteer service. If students contact the service they can arrange to get picked up and dropped off from and to the destination. 

Fisher also said the free service is a solution to the problem that students want to volunteer but only have a certain amount of time to get to the location.

Since the Panther Shuttle can sometimes get full, the volunteer shuttle will give students who need a ride an opportunity to reach their location on time and receive a ride back to their destination. This will be the first time this special service will be used at Eastern. 

“There are a great many ways to help in our local community and sometimes transportation can be a barrier,” Fisher said. 

She also mentioned that the service is also willing to help provide students with various ways to get involved with a variety of different volunteer services. “With over 60 local agencies to choose from we can help you leave your mark and be the difference,” she said.

The Student Community Service office has a van that will be of help to students for various volunteering opportunities.   Questions about the shuttle can be answered by going to the Student Community Service office in the Office of Student Programs is located on the third floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

“This is our Community Service van and students can utilize this by coming to our office,” she said.

Alex Seidler can be reached at 581-2812or [email protected]