Category: Students & Youth

Students & YOuth

4/10/2019

2019 RIT Framing Frenzy

We had a fantastic day with nearly 200 volunteers (over three shifts), 150 wall frames (for two five-bedroom, two-story houses), 60 hammers, and over 6,000 nails at the second annual RIT Framing Frenzy!

Thank you so much to all of the RIT volunteers and staff, and the amazing Habitat Hammer & Saw crew leaders who made this not only a day of great accomplishment, but of bringing partners together and enjoying our work together.

When we roll up our sleeves joyfully, we are building the world that we want to see - a world where we come together, and a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Stay tuned and stay involved as the frames for these houses head to Holworthy Street soon! Sign up for email updates at: https://goo.gl/forms/mf9aRRt0Uj2zfBZ63

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Students & Youth

3/8/2019

Villanova College (Canada) students spend a week volunteering in Rochester

Today is International Women's Day and we have been hosting a group of international volunteers (who just happened to be mostly young women) from our Canadian neighbors to the north all week!

For five years now, seniors from Villanova College (a high school in King City, near Toronto) have come down to build with us for a week! A huge thank you as well to St. Margaret Mary Church for giving them a wonderful place to rest and reflect between building!

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UR Event

3/6/2019

University of Rochester Habitat to host annual benefit dinner and panel discussion

Volunteer led event: "We will have great food, a panel of speakers including home owners and Habitat coordinators, and a raffle - all for only $8! Also, it is all vegetarian!

Tickets on sale starting 3/4 at the Common Market. We are accepting declining donations at the Common Market as well!"

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Habitat U.S.

3/4/2019

Flower City Habitat and students across the continent participate in alternative spring break trips

More than 10,000 high school and college students participate in alternative spring breaks with Habitat for Humanity each year.

This year, Flower City Habitat will be hosting students from Villanova College (Canada), Roberts Wesleyan students just got back from building South Carolina, and University of Rochester students are about to build in Boston!

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Students & Youth

2/25/2019

Webster Middle School hosting basketball game to benefit Habitat

This Friday! Join us, Spry Middle School of Webster Central Schools, and Rochester Wheels Wheelchair Basketball for the Spirit Week Charity Basketball Game!

The game will be held at Schroeder HS gym beginning at 7:00 pm on this Friday, March 1. Schroeder's address is: 875 Ridge Rd, Webster, NY 14580 -- and the gym entrance is around the rear. Admission is a $5 donation at the door (or more, if people want!)

Check out this amazing video by Samuel Bell - Spry Middle School, Webster - and join us tomorrow night for a great family night out!

If you can't make it, but still want to support this wonderful event, click the donate button now to help this event raise even more to help more families like Keisha's achieve their dream of homeownership!

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Habitat U.s.

2/18/2019

Roberts Wesleyan crew participates in South Carolina Collegiate Challenge

“I just wanted to spend my break doing something that mattered and to help people, and it's also a little warmer here than up in Rochester right now, so that's pretty nice,” said Bailey Latourette, a Roberts Wesleyan College Student.

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Collegiate Challenge

Students & Youth

1/28/2019

Flower City Habitat Participates in Citizenship Conference at Irondequoit High School

Tim Guillemette, Family Services Manager at Flower City Habitat for Humanity, detailed to students how Habitat for Humanity was birthed from regular citizens becoming civically engaged in their community. He hopes students “see that very small communities can cause massive change.“

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Student Volunteering

ReStore Deconstruction team

11/1/2018

We're constructing a crew of volunteers to help deconstruct kitchens!

Volunteers will assist in the safe, physical removal of material donations from donors’ homes/buildings to reduce the costs of home-improvement and raise funds for Flower City Habitat for Humanity’s mission of building decent affordable housing.