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Habitat for Humanity more than houses
100 volunteers team with national group for neighborhood cleanup
Jun. 4, 2013 10:42 PM |
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Build-a-Thon: Watch Habitat for Humanity and AmeriCorps kicked off the 2013 Build-a-Thon in Pensacola, a week of
community development projects.
Written by
Kaycee Lagarde
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Habitat for Humanity may be best known for building houses, but this
week its volunteers are showing that the organization offers much
more.
A week of community development projects in the Westside Garden
District neighborhood in Pensacola kicked off Monday as part of
Habitat for Humanity’s 2013 AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon, which was
held in three other cities this spring and will wrap up in Washington,
D.C., on Saturday.
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Overgrown and littered areas will be cleared, sidewalks will be
repaired, addresses will be painted on houses and a historic
cemetery will be revitalized, thanks to the toil of 100 volunteers.
This year’s Build-a-Thon marks the third
consecutive year that Pensacola Habitat for
Humanity has been selected to host the event,
but this year is different than most.
Build-a-Thon
Jun. 04, 2013
“We went to the residents and said, ‘What do
you need done in your neighborhood?’ ” said
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Habitat for Humanity staff and AmeriCorps volunteers
kicked off the 2013 AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon in
Pensacola today, a week of community development
projects in the Westside Garden District Neighborhood
in Pensacola. About 80 AmeriCorps volunteers from
across the country along with about 20 Pensacola
Habitat for Humanity volunteers and staff members will
be working this week in the area from Gregory to
Cervantes Streets in between Pace Boulevard and A
Street. Rather than building homes from the ground up
like in previous Build-a-Thons, volunteers will work on
projects including yard maintenance, land clearing,
sidewalk repairs and address painting.
Natalie Shearlock, director of community
engagement for Pensacola Habitat for
Humanity. “Then we were awarded this build
event, so we thought it was a great opportunity
to have lots of hands on the projects that
needed to be done.”
Clive Rainey, the first volunteer with Habitat for
Humanity when it was founded in 1976, said
that he is excited to be working in Pensacola
this week to revitalize the neighborhood.
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“Our name is Habitat for Humanity, and Habitat
always meant more than houses,” Rainey said.
“It meant the surroundings, it meant the
community. And that’s part of what we’re doing
here.”
AmeriCorps volunteer Jamie Hufmeister, center, and
Habitat for Humanity volunteer Clive Rainey, right,
watch as Karl Krause, left, removes broken concrete
sidewalks from the Westside Garden District
neighborhood Tuesday morning June 4, 2013. The
Habitat for Humanity's 2013 AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon
are spending the week in Pensacola on a variety of
revitalization projects. / Tony
Giberson/[email protected]
About 80 AmeriCorps members from across
the nation along with about 20 Pensacola
Habitat for Humanity volunteers and staff
members will be working this week in the area
from Gregory to Cervantes Streets in between
Pace Boulevard and A Street.
AmeriCorps is a program of the Corporation
for National and Community Service that offers
75,000 service opportunities each year
through nonprofit groups, including Habitat for
Humanity.
Keke Brown, left, Jenny Lee, center, and Jamie
Hufmeister, right, volunteer their time working in the
Westside Garden District neighborhood during the
Habitat for Humanity's 2013 AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon
Tuesday morning June 4, 2013. / Tony
Giberson/[email protected]
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Habitat for Humanity and AmeriCorps
members also are teaming up with Friends of
St. John’s Cemetery, a local volunteer group
that works to keep up the grounds of the
historic cemetery. Volunteers will be working
this week on restoring the cemetery
gatehouse, restoring monuments and
recording all of the graves with photographs.
Annie Mack, a Habitat homeowner who lives
in the Westside Garden District neighborhood,
said that the work being done during the Builda-Thon this week is a big help to her and her neighbors.
“I appreciate the job that they’re doing to clean up our neighborhood,
and they’re doing an excellent job,” Mack said. “It’s going to help this
community good, because it was a lot of work that was needed to be
done.”
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