Soap operas give daytime TV viewers hours of guilty pleasure. However, in October, many of the top soap actors and actresses got together with their fans to partake in a program that was truly guiltless pleasure: volunteering to beautify schools.
During the week of October 19, the Entertainment Industry Foundation debuted its "iParticipate" program. The multi-year initiative's goal: to get the entire entertainment community and millions of Americans to volunteer regularly.
The highlight of this year's effort was ABC Daytime and SOAPnet's Soap Nation Tour joining forces with City Year, a national youth service organization. The stars of All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live banded together with City Year members to spruce up some schools in Los Angeles and New York. The event was held on October 24.
Clad in branded "Disney VoluntEARS" T-shirts (Disney owns ABC), Brandon Barash, Jane Elliott, Kent King, Lisa Lo Cicero and others from General Hospital were on hand at Ramona Elementary school in L.A. In New York, Chrishell Stause, Melissa Claire Egan and Jori Petersen from All My Children and One Life to Live pitched in at the John H. Finley Campus School PS 129. Fans interested in joining the stars were able to sign up at www.soapnet.com to reserve their spot.
Those who missed their chance to join in shouldn't be too disappointed – iParticipate is planning more events. Plus, the Soap Nation Tour regularly brings stars from ABC Daytime and SOAPnet to cities across the country to meet their fans.
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