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

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SJC Habitat for Humanity has completed 2013 Collegiate Challenge to Athens, Georgia!  
 Pictures posted to our Facebook page!


Our 14th annual trip to work with Rocky Mount Area HFH - two vans full of Pumas traveled to North Carolina November 17-21.  Pictures posted to our Facebook page!

(last updated March 27, 2013)


Our campus chapter has been for our 5th Global Village work trip for May, 2013 to Nicaragua!!
Visit our trip page or our Facebook page for details!






Officers for 2012:

President- Allyson Bierovic (interim)
Vice President- Hanna Kane
Secretary- Emily Claeys
Treasurer- Hannah Walters

SJC representative to Jasper County Habitat for Humanity:  Alex Becker



 

Stillwater HFHSpring break "Collegiate Challenge" trip  to Athens, Georgia was a success!  See our Facebook page for pictures!





If you are an SJC / Habitat alum, contact us 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.






Our campus chapter completed its 4th international trip
 May 10-21, 2011 to Macedonia!  


Click here for our team journal and pictures.





  • Annual North Carolina and regional/local trips -



  • International Global Village trips - click here





  • Collegiate Challenge trips  - click here









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History
Goals
Act! Speak! Build! Week
our local affiliate, Jasper County HfH
Officers
About Habitat for Humanity
Trips
Collegiate Challenge


Trips

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 has assisted Newton County to build a home in Kentland, Indiana.

SJC students have worked with local affiliates in surrounding areas, including Valparaiso, Kokomo, NW Indiana, Rockford, IL, and Cincinnati, OH.  These are primarily Saturday or overnight trips.  If you are involved with a Habitat affiliate within a 3-5 hour drive and would like to contact SJC Habitat about arranging for a weekend build, contact us at habitat@saintjoe.edu

We also travel annually to work with the Rocky Mount, North Carolina Habitat affiliate over part of  Thanksgiving vacation.
 
Click below for photos of various North Carolina trips...



Rocky Mount 2002 Rocky Mount 2005 Rocky Mount 2008
Rocky Mount 2003
Rocky Mount 2006
 
Click below for local and regional work trips...

Shack City 2003
HabiFest 2002
Local work 2002
Homecoming 2001
Local work
Rockford, 2003
Kokomo, IN 2006


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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; Statesboro, Georgia; El Dorado, Arkansas; and Birmingham, Alabama.

PAST COLLEGIATE CHALLENGE PHOTOS

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

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Global Village International Trips  

Chile


Chisasa Village, Tanzania, Africa 2004

Guatemala, Central America 2008

Limache, Chile, South America 2006Veles, Macedonia 2011

  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 20 different Habitat affiliates for Collegiate Challenge Spring Break and 3 disaster areas nationwide, and have participated in Global Village trips to Tanzania, Chile, Guatemala and Macedonia.  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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Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry.  Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest charged.

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.

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The SJC Campus chapter has four main goals:

 

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