21 families, 27 children participated in Little Helping Hands volunteer activities on Family Volunteer Day 2009.

Activities included farming and harvesting at Green Gate Farms, trash/litter pick-up with Purty Up Austin at Boggy Creek Greenbelt Park, mulching/planting flowers and trash/litter pick-up at Eilers Park, sorting and hanging clothes at a Goodwill Retail store, and weighing and packing 3000 lbs. of carrots at the Capital Area Food Bank.

6-year old Lil' Green Hands volunteer harvesting hibiscus at Green Gate Farms on Family Volunteer Day.

9-year volunteer participating in the Friends of Eilers Park Beautification Project helping to plant bluebonnets at Eilers Park.

Father & 5-year old son participating in Purty Up Austin's Anti-Litter Campaign helping to clean-up Boggy Creek Greenbelt Park.

Mother and 8 year-old son weighing and packaging carrots at the Capital Area Food Bank.

5-year old Hodgepodge Helper hanging clothes at the Goodwill Retail Store on North Lamar.