Volunteer LSU is gearing up for National Volunteer Week at the University, which begins Monday, giving students the chance to get involved with volunteering around campus through various daily activities scheduled for next week.

Students can learn more about the volunteer opportunities and events by visiting the Volunteer LSU table in Free Speech Plaza beginning Monday morning, said landscape architecture junior Erin Percevault, one of the special event coordinators for Volunteer LSU. According to the Volunteer LSU website, a few events next week will be a Volunteer Recognition Day where “local nonprofits and volunteer organizations will hold a fair to thank and meet volunteers.” There will also be a Hands for Hope event where volunteers will “write encouraging letters to juvenile delinquents at Jetson Youth Center.”

The week of events will end with the Fourth Annual Spring Greening Day, which takes place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 26, and a sustainability expo held in front of the Student Union, Percevault said.

Registration for the greening day ended Wednesday, but Percevault said students will be able to register the day of the event.

“Spring Greening Day is meant as the culmination of National Volunteer Week,” Percevault said. “We have projects running all throughout the week for students to come by and work for a few hours whenever they are free between classes.”

This year, volunteers will be helping to place mulch around the live oaks on the Parade Ground, add color to flower beds along Tower Drive from Dalrymple to the gate at the Union, and engage in some replanting of vegetation that may have been damaged or died since last year’s greening day, said Assistant Director of Facility Services Tammy Millican.

University Landscape Services works with Volunteer LSU to help with logistics and to supply tools, said Assistant Director for Landscape Services Fred Fellner.

Students and faculty work alongside staff from Landscape Services, which Fellner said specific employees are assigned to certain areas to aid the volunteers.

Fellner said he is expecting around 55 members of the Landscape Services staff and Percevault said about 150 students will be present for the greening day.