A day after visiting victims of the Amtrak crash, Connor Barwin, an avid community service participant, was helping renovate Smith Playground in South Philadelphia on Thursday with many others.
"I grew up in this kind of environment," Barwin said to Comcast SportsNet's Leila Rahimi. "It was so important for my upbringing and the way I turned out that I think you try to give that to as many kids as possible."
On Wednesday, Barwin and Eagles teammate Mark Sanchez visited Temple University Hospital to be with victims of the Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 which derailed and crashed Tuesday night.
On Thursday, Barwin was at it again, this time helping restore a commonplace for kids to play in the Philadelphia community.
"I have that unique opportunity to really make a difference and so I try to do that as much as possible," Barwin said. "And this is an exciting project, this is such an active playground, it is so active and almost even overused, so we're really going to try to make it a special place."
For more from Barwin and Rahimi, watch the video above.