Sharing Our Shore - Waukegan sponsors educational outreach programs that include indoor classroom visits to local city and community partners and outdoor nature education.

During the summer, our events involve working with children and adults, usually in outdoor nature settings like the Waukegan Dunes/Lakefront, or around Waukegan’s many parks. During other times of the year we provide educational programs for our community partners, the public library, schools and the Waukegan History Museum.

Most events only require participation for a few hours. Training is provided for new volunteers.

Some examples of our volunteers projects:

• Participate in summer nature programs at the Waukegan lakefront run by the Waukegan Park District and Waukegan Schools. Our volunteers teach a 15 minute nature class followed by a 45 minute dune or forest walk.

• Teach people how to use binoculars

• Read to young children (nature storytelling).

• Provide bilingual translation, written and/or oral).

If you’d like to volunteer for projects like these, or would like more information, please email: sharingourshore@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you!