This year, for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine students and staff partnered with Renovation Alliance and Family Promise to renovate a rental home that will provide an affordable place to live for a low income family. Students painted, installed fixtures, hung doors and blinds, and tiled two bathrooms. Their hard work and commitment to the community embodies Virginia Tech's motto, Ut Prosim (that I may serve). 

The video below ends with a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Life's most persistent and urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?' "

a ladder in the foreground with four volunteers working in the background aerial shot of a volunteer painting 2 volunteers working on tiled floor in bathroom volunteer painting louvered closet doors volunteer painting as viewed through an open window volunteer cleaning the carpet at the top of the stairs 3 volunteers painting formal shot of volunteers on the house porch

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