Collegiate Challenge Chair
Year: Junior (Class of 2012)
Major: Early Childhood Education, 4th & 5th Grade Endorsement, Reading Endorsement
How many years have you been involved in Habitat For Humanity here at AU?
This will be my 3rd year participating in the Habitat Spring Break Trip
What is your favorite memory with Habitat For Humanity?
There's no way I could pick a favorite memory! From building two houses, to meeting the families, seeing our house furnished and being lived in a year after we built it, meeting people from all over campus, being able to build with one of my best friends, goofing off in the evenings down by the river, and singing obnoxiously in the cars...I LOVE my Habitat Spring Break trips and it is impossible to pick out a favorite part.
Why do you love Habitat For Humanity?
I love Habitat for Humanity for many reasons. Habitat is such a great orginazation that really lives by its motto "a hand up not a hand out". Habitat strives to assist families that have tried and failed in the past and have no where else to turn. In assisting them though, Habitat ensures that they also assist those around them as well, and by providing a family with the neccesitiies such as a warm bed, a safe environment, and a place for their family to live together, then the other necessities in life for them such as work, education, and food are much easier to come by. Knowing that we can help take young children and their parents off the streets and put a strong and beautiful roof over their heads is amazing to me. I look through the pictures of houses we have built in the past and it often makes me cry thinking that something as simple and as short as our week long spring break can change the life of another.
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