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Habitat for Humanity

Stroud, OK

 March 4th-10th, 2012 

"You can expect to be fully immersed into the community through genuine hospitality and acts of kindness by all you meet. Upon arriving you are no longer a stranger, you are family, and will be treated as such with home cooked meals, conversation, and warmth." 
-2010 Participant


2010 Trip

Habitat for Humanity

Spend the week in Oklahoma living among a wonderful, welcoming and close-knit community while volunteering with Habitat for Humanity.  Opportunities include building homes, painting, and getting the chance to experience the incredible hospitality that their community has to offer. 

Stroud Habitat for Humanity, Inc. is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing organization. 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.


2010 Participants

 

What to Expect:

  • Travel: The group travels to, from, and around Stroud by van.
  • Lodging:
  • Food:
  • Work:
  • Extra Fun!:
  • Focus: Community, Hands on work, physical labor

 

 

Interested in applying to co-lead or be a participant on the Habitat for Humanity trip?  Apply here to co-lead or here to participate!

Any questions about this trip can be directed to Alternative Break Experiences at abe@csbsju.edu

ABE Spring Trip

Habitat Packing List

Habitat Itinerary

Special Points of Interest:

  • Physical labor
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Hands-on
  • Restoration

From Past Participants:

"The community of Stroud, OK truly lives the Benedictine Values."
-2010 Participant

 

"One of the best experiences of my college career so far and I still have two more years to do ABE trips!!!"
-2010 Participant