The Big Event is a one day student run community service
project where we send hundreds of volunteers out
into the community to just say thank you
for making Charlottesville, this college town a great place
to go to school.
UVA students are spreading out to 40 sites
all over Charlottesville.
We help people who cannot afford bikes get bikes.
We help people learn how to fix up their own bikes.
It's great when we get a big enthusiastic group of people
here helping us out.
The more bikes we have, the more we
can give away, the more people we
can serve in Charlottesville.
There's a pretty healthy culture here at UVA
to give back to the Charlottesville community,
where we're very grateful.
We feel like the community embraces us
and any way that we can help out and give back
is always something that we're going to forward to doing.
The main goal of The Big Event is
to build relationships between students at the university
and members of the community to interact with these people who
live here and help make it such a vibrant place,
and safe place, wonderful place to go to school.