More than 80 CSX employees volunteered to work alongside service partners from the Alliance for Community Trees, City Year, and Action for Healthy Kids in late April 2015. The volunteers spent time at an elementary school in Washington, DC and collaborated to enhance school facilities. The projects at the school represented the key focuses of the CSX “Beyond Our Rails” program: environment, community, safety, health, and wellness. Volunteers restored a basketball court, created a new school garden and greenhouse, planted trees across the campus, and painted stencils around the playground. In addition, they drew murals dedicated to safety along the hallways.
To honor the volunteers' contribution, CSX gave a grant to the Alliance for Community Trees to plant more native trees at another local school and provided sponsorship for the annual Earth Day Anacostia River Clean-Up undertaken by the Anacostia Watershed Society.
The events were part of CSX’s #LocalMotive campaign, which has created a forum to discuss the ways the company benefits local communities through service projects, job creation, and other activities. Individuals can take part in the conversation online at BeyondOurRails.org/LocalMotive.
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