Posted 11:11 a.m. Friday, March 6, 2015
Campus Habitat for Humanity chapter to take part in Florida building project
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UW-La Crosse Habitat for Humanity students, pictured here at a Fort Lauderdale site a year ago, will again travel to Florida this spring break to help with construction efforts. The UW-L chapter has made the trip for nearly a decade.[/caption]
Most college students head to Florida for spring break to get some sun. But, a group of UW-La Crosse students are heading south to work.
Thirty-eight students, members of the UW-L Habitat for Humanity chapter, will go to Fort Lauderdale during spring break, the week of March 16, to help build houses. They’re taking part in the Florida Habitat affiliate’s “Collegiate Challenge.”
The UW-L group leaves via motor coach from the Cowley Hall parking lot at 7 p.m. Friday, March 13. After a few sight seeing stops along the way, they will stay at a state park during their five days of on-site work.
The students raised money for the trip, but are mainly paying for the experience at their own expense, says retired Biology Professor Tom Claflin, adviser of the UW-L Habitat group. “It’s a great opportunity for the students to experience volunteering for such a worthy cause in another part of the country,” he says.
Claflin, who also serves as the president of the La Crosse Area Chapter of Habitat for Humanity, says the campus group volunteers in La Crosse, too. Along with providing workers for local house builds up to eight Saturdays a year, they also volunteer at the Children’s Museum and Salvation Army. And for the past two years, the chapter has organized bell ringing by UW-L students and staff at all sites in La Crosse during a December Saturday.
“It’s a great bunch of students,” says Claflin. “I’m proud to be part of the chapter.”
UW-La Crosse Habitat for Humanity students, pictured here at a Fort Lauderdale site a year ago, will again travel to Florida this spring break to help with construction efforts. The UW-L chapter has made the trip for nearly a decade.[/caption]
Most college students head to Florida for spring break to get some sun. But, a group of UW-La Crosse students are heading south to work.
Thirty-eight students, members of the UW-L Habitat for Humanity chapter, will go to Fort Lauderdale during spring break, the week of March 16, to help build houses. They’re taking part in the Florida Habitat affiliate’s “Collegiate Challenge.”
The UW-L group leaves via motor coach from the Cowley Hall parking lot at 7 p.m. Friday, March 13. After a few sight seeing stops along the way, they will stay at a state park during their five days of on-site work.
The students raised money for the trip, but are mainly paying for the experience at their own expense, says retired Biology Professor Tom Claflin, adviser of the UW-L Habitat group. “It’s a great opportunity for the students to experience volunteering for such a worthy cause in another part of the country,” he says.
Claflin, who also serves as the president of the La Crosse Area Chapter of Habitat for Humanity, says the campus group volunteers in La Crosse, too. Along with providing workers for local house builds up to eight Saturdays a year, they also volunteer at the Children’s Museum and Salvation Army. And for the past two years, the chapter has organized bell ringing by UW-L students and staff at all sites in La Crosse during a December Saturday.
“It’s a great bunch of students,” says Claflin. “I’m proud to be part of the chapter.”