Alpha Epsilon Chapter of La Unidad Latina

Fall 2006 :

Spring 2006 :

Immigrant Rights Protest in Washington DC and at UVA
Juntos Podemos, an event in which high school students are brought to campus in order to promote Latinos in engineering (with SHPE)
Latino Youth Symposium at American University

Fall 2005 :

Spring 2005 :

A Day in the Life mentorship program
Juntos Podemos, an event in which high school students are brought to campus in order to promote Latinos in engineering (with SHPE)
Mentoring Project at Virginia Commonwealth University
Service at the Salvation Army

Fall 2004 :

Spring 2004 :

A Day in the Life mentorship program
5K Race for Race
Interpreting at the Hospital
Charity Party with Towards A Better Latin America (all proceeds went to a selected orphanage in Colombia)
1st Annual MGC Greek Charity Cookoff

Fall 2003 :

Spring 2003:

Fall 2002:

Spring 2002:

Continuation of our services in the Hospital Language Bank.
Established the Lambda SUNS Program, where we tutored kids on Thursday afternoons at Albemarle High School.
Ran a workshop titled the Faces of Addiction and participated in a Food Sorting for the local Salvation Army in Charlottesville, VA .
2nd annual First Glance Program, with students from Albermarle High School.
Walked again in the March of Dimes .

Fall 2001:

We served as Hospital Language Bank volunteers for the University of Virginia Health System Facilities.
We put up Cultural Awareness Flyers during the Hispanic Heritage Month.
Once a month, throughout the semester, we volunteered with Habitat for Humanity along with other greeks from the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC).
2nd annual Clothing Drive.

Spring 2001:

We tutored local Albermarle Middle School ESL students.
We and a group of volunteer students assisted impoverished migrant workers by helping to build their new homes with Habitat for Humanity.

Fall 2000:

We developed and saw to fruition the first annual "First Glance Program" dedicated to helping young latino students and others strengthen their goals, through a series of leadership development workshops, focussing on the importance of educaton, and a thorough introduction to the college enrollment process.
We developed and saw to fruition LUL's first annual Clothing Drive, dedicated to bringing warm clothes to the impoverished migrant workers in Charlottesville and the surrounding Albemarle County.
We translated Habitat for Humanity's Home Owners Manual from English to Spanish for the growing Spanish speaking population in Charlottesville.
We continued to be in the University Hospital's phone bank, to serve as interpetors: Hermanos Cameron, Shoaib, and Eduardo are intepreting for Spanish; Hermano Fadi is interpreting for arabic, and Shoaib is interpreting
Urdu (pakistani language).

Summer 2000:

We passed out informative flyers concerning the United States' mistreatment of Vieques Island during the Puerto Rican Day Parade.

Spring 2000:

Participated weekly in "Boosters" tutoring program at local elementary schools.
Participated in LSAC's (Latino Student Admissions Committee) phon-a-thons by calling perspective high school Latino students who had applied to the University of Virginia.
Served as Greeters for Spring Blast (spring blast is a gathering for all Latino high school seniors who had just been accepted to the school.
We are in the University Hospital's phone bank, to serve as interpetors: Hermanos Cameron, Shoaib, and Eduardo are intepreting for Spanish; Hermano Fadi is interpreting for arabic, and Shoaib is interpreting Urdu (pakistani language).
Assisted Habitat for Humanity's housing selection committe by interpreting for Spanish speaking families.
Walked in Walk America's "March of Dimes" and acquired donations exceeding $100, used directly for the medical embetterment of children born with disabilities.
Donated $200 to Operation Smile's efforts in Nicaragua and another $200 to the LUL foundation, which goes directly back into the Latino Community in the form of charity and scholarships.