Today was the last day of our Intensive Learning experience at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Today we put the finishing touches on helping them move to their new location. We demolished some walls, shredded (again), removed letters from a door and did some final packing. While this was going on, there was a...
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Today, in our fifth day of Habitat for Humanity, we went to the Perkins Center of the Arts and helped them build raised planting beds for their garden. We built the frames out of 2 by 8s and filled them using dirt from a large pile that the Perkins Center had delivered last Friday....
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Day Four Our day at the Habitat Warehouse began with Steven, Anthony and Peter taking down an office space by removing the windows and doors, preparing the area for demolition on Friday (hopefully by our group). While this was happening, a number of students, plus Mr. Thomson and Mr. Newman, started the long practice...
Continue readingHabitat for Humanity: Teamwork and packing up at Restore
Day Three Today was a really busy day! We helped the Restore at Habitat for Humanity move the rest of their furniture by loading trucks and putting porcelain products on palettes. We did a lot of heavy lifting. Loading the trucks was like playing Tetris – it took a lot of thinking to get...
Continue readingHabitat for Humanity: Demolition
Day Two Today, we had breakfast as soon as we arrived. Then, we went to the Habitat Restore warehouse to do whatever was needed. The visit was actually a surprise because we were supposed to be making raised beds, but due to frigid temperatures we decided to change our plans. Of course, the Habitat community...
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Habitat for Humanity: Twelve attempts to roll up a carpet, or, the value of a hard day’s work
Day One For day one of our Habitat for Humanity Intensive Learning we traveled to the Burlington County Habitat for Humanity Restore. They were moving their offices to a new store on Rt. 38 and needed our help packing and loading their old office. We filled boxes and stacked them onto pallets to be...
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Habitat in training!
Upcoming events: Habitat ReStore is moving to Maple Shade! Getting ready to get out into the world! ...
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