Gators Morning Gators: UF athletes complete service abroad trip to Greece
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Sixteen Florida student-athletes, including 10 football players, have returned from Greece following a 10-day service abroad trip with the GatorMade program.
The bulk of their time was spent as volunteers serving those less fortunate in one of the world’s most famous cities, Athens, working with an organization known as “The Smile of the Child.” According to its official website, it serves as “the largest internationally recognized non-profit, non-governmental organization in Greece in the critical field of child protection, support of children and families with children in need, as well as free public health service for children.”
Savannah Bailey, senior director of player relations and the GatorMade program, directed similar trips at her previous stops, including a service abroad trip to Thailand at Clemson. Bailey worked with her contacts at various organizations to put together this experience for UF athletes.
“One thing we want to drive home for anyone that participates or anyone out there watching is that whether it’s in your hometown, in Gainesville or across the world, there’s always work to be done,” Bailey said in the video below.
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“There’s nothing that’s too big or too small that could potentially change someone’s life. And that life could be your own, could be someone you know, someone you don’t know that’s going through something. Sometimes it’s being the drop and a steady stream of service to make sure things are still functioning. It’s really whatever it looks like to help the folks that do this every day to be successful.”
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