‘Motion to Makeover’ project transforms Southwest park
Any news about people volunteering to clean up and “makeover” a Detroit city park is good news. All the better is that the project is being headed by some law students.
An excerpt:
The 313 Project, started in 2009 by then first-year law students Aisa Villarosa, Erika Riggs and Juliana Rivera as a community-service student group, offers free legal clinics to underserved groups. But they also spend time each month with their Motion to Makeover project, which took on a major project — Southwest Detroit’s 26-acre Romanowski Park.
What started as a casual idea to work on a park took root when the group decided on Romanowski and approached Home Depot about getting materials, not expecting it to turn into a $16,500 grant from the company’s foundation.
Read the rest of the story in HuffPost Detroit here.
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