VMC Volunteer in the News
The Virginia Muslim Coalition had several volunteers participate in the James River Clean Up on Saturday June 13th. One of them was interviewed for an article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. An excerpt from the article is below along with a link to the original news story. A warm thank you to all of our VMC volunteers for their hard work!
Abdel Jalil traveled from Fairfax County to Chesterfield County to lend a hand cleaning up the Falling Creek Ironworks site as part of the Virginia Muslim Coalition’s group of eight volunteers.
“This is water that people drink across the state, so it’s our duty to do some work to keep it clean,” he said.
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/PARK14_20090613-213806/273771/