Non-profit housebuilder Habitat For Humanity is reporting that more than 10,000 high school and college students are lining up to swing hammers over spring break in 2011 through Habitat’s Collegiate Challenge alternative spring break program, in which volunteers can pitch in for a week of building and restoring homes for needy folks. That's a massive increase in student support over the last five years;
1,531 students volunteered in 2006 to spend spring break volunteering to help rebuild the storm-torn US Gulf Coast with the charitable organization founded in 1976.
Through Habitat's
Collegiate Challenge, which offers opportunities to groups of five or more participants aged 16 and over, over 600 student volunteer groups are traveling to 185 locations for spring break 2011. Options abound for pounding nails at spring break this year (though nobody's saying pounding shots over spring break doesn't have its
allure);
search in your state or one you'd like to visit to see what's cooking.
What is Habitat for Humanity?
Habitat For Humanity is an international, nonprofit housing organization, working in partnership with families in need of decent shelter and with supervised volunteers, using largely donated materials, to build homes in the U.S. and around the world.
How Habitat For Humanity Works
Habitat's home base is in Georgia, but community-level work is overseen by affiliates -- local, nonprofit organizations. Affiliates choose potential partners (like families needing affordable housing or homes rebuilt after natural disasters) and volunteers -- which is where you come in! Habitat for Humanity builds nationally as well as internationally, offering lots o' opportunities; no construction experience required. Learn all about about volunteering with Habitat for Humanity:
Enjoy, and way to step up!
"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."
--Eudora Welty
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