Welcome to the Saint Joseph's College Campus Chapter of Habitat for Humanity!!

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  (last updated June 20, 2008)


Recently, our campus chapter participated in our 3rd international trip May 10-20, 2008 to Guatemala.

Click here for more information, including photos and our team journal.



(Guatemala photo credit:  Julie Lopez / Habitat for Humanity, Int'l)

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Congratulations to Maggie Broderick, Katy Rasco and Katie Egan for being named "2008 Senior Habitat Volunteers of the Year"

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SJC Campus Chapter 2008 officers:

President:  Mike Thurston
Vice President:  Sara Cortez
Treasurer:  Mike Koscielny
Secretary:  Chris Barrios

Many thanks to our outgoing 2007 officers:  Katie Egan, Katy Rasco, Maggie Broderick and Mike Thurston for a job well-done.

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If you are an SJC / Habitat alum, contact Advisors Prof. Bro. Rob Reuter and Nick Schafer on how you can help make a difference in the lives of current SJC students who might be interested in participating in future life-changing experiences with Habitat for Humanity.

If you'd like to get on our SJC Habitat email list (especially alumni!), send an email with your email address, name and year of graduation.  We put you on our mailing list to find out what exciting things SJC Habitat for Humanity is doing.

• Annual North Carolina and regional/local trips -

•  click here

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• International Global Village trips - click here

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  Collegiate Challenge trips  - click here

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Officers for 2008:

President:  Michael Thurston
Vice-President:  Sara Cortez
Secretary:  Chris Barrios
Treasurer:  Michael Koscielny
SJC representative to Jasper County Habitat for Humanity:  Carla Herr

SJC Campus Chapter is advised by Br. Rob Reuter and Nick Schafer

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As one of its major goals, Saint Joseph's College students work as volunteers in construction, and committee/board members of Jasper County Habitat for Humanity. JCHFH has constructed seven homes in Jasper County, and is making plans in Kentland, Indiana for its next home.

Collegiate Challenge

Students have taken spring break trips to Coahoma, Mississippi; Columbus, Georgia; LaPlace, Louisiana; Homestead, Florida; Davenport, Iowa; Pontoosuc, Illinois; Belle Haven, Virginia; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Sherad, Mississippi; Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, South Dakota; Charleston, West Virginia; Mobile, Alabama; Lynchburg, Virginia; Meridian, Mississippi, Sea Island HFH near Charleston, South Carolina; Covington, Louisiana; Austin, Texas; and Statesboro, Georgia.

Tulsa, Oklahoma 1996	Charleston, West Virginia 1998	Meridian, Mississippi 2001
Cheyenne River Indian Reservation Eagle Butte, South Dakota 1997	Austin, Texas 2004	Statesboro, Georgia 2005
Mobile, Alabama 2006	Covington, Louisiana 2007

Global Village International Trips

  History

Saint Joseph's College students have been involved in HFH since March 1991 with their first trip to Coahoma, Mississippi. Since that time SJC students have traveled to 14 different Habitat affiliates and 3 disaster areas nationwide, and have participated in Global Village trips to Africa and Chile.  Our goal is to eliminate poverty housing by helping to build simple, decent homes with God's families in need, and assist in disaster relief efforts.

Work with Habitat for Humanity, especially rebuilding of homes for families that were victims of natural disasters, created interest in responding to natural disasters in the United States. Thus, students traveled to Davenport, Iowa and Pontoosuc, Illinois to help with flood relief efforts during the Great Flood of 1993 and staff members of the College collected and delivered supplies to flood victims. Students also travel to LaPlace, Louisiana to help with Hurricane Andrew relief efforts.

So positive were the evaluations from the Habitat and disaster relief trips that staff, students and community members helped found Jasper County Habitat for Humanity. This local affiliate was incorporated in 1994. Work with the affiliate has helped to bring students of the College and members of Jasper County together in efforts to eliminate poverty housing.  The college chapter has  continued with disaster relief, traveling to Rocky Mount, North Carolina in 1999 to assist in repairing home that were damaged during back-to-back hurricanes named Dennis and Floyd.  The SJC campus chapter has continue to travel to Rocky Mount each Thanksgiving Vacation to help that affiliate with repair and new construction.   Recently, the chapter has devoted Collegiate Challenge trips to the Gulf Coast to assist in re-building after the hurricanes of 2005.

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Volunteers provide most of the labor, and individual and corporate donors provide money and materials to build Habitat houses. Partner families themselves invest hundreds of hours of labor - "sweat equity" - into building their homes and the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used to build more houses.

The SJC Campus chapter has four main goals:

• 1. to build

• 2.  to advocate for change

• 3. to raise funds for the local affiliate

• 4. to educate