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June 27, 2005
Habitat For Humanity
What with all the other craziness recently, I forgot to mention what is probably the coolest thing I did this weekend: I attended the initial Orientation required of all new potential volunteers for Habitat For Humanity. Saturday morning I went to the headquarters over on Forest Park Ave. along with probably 150 other people and sat through two hours of presentation and Q&A about the history of HFH, current projects, volunteer opportunities, and what to do next if you’re interested.
I’m interested. Very. In fact, half-way through the presentation, a man got up to make a plug for volunteers to begin training as Crew Leaders, and I came up to him afterwards to get some more information; I think I’d like to try that. I’m a bit nervous, because I think it’d be a genuine commitment, but at the same time, it’s so totally worthwhile and I think it’d be really good for me. It would involve a fair amount of training in addition to the usual volunteer commitment, but I’d learn a lot, and I think I’d like the responsibilty.
I hit on the idea of volunteering with HFH after talking with Phil Valko, Jeff Susor and my mom. I’ve been thinking about the possibility of purchasing an old home and rehabing it, but I feel as though I know very little about construction. Mom recommended that I try to find some volunteer opportunities to help me meet some better quality people, and so combining these two thoughts made HFH seem like a natural fit.
I guess the next step is to email the volunteer coordinator at HFH and ask about the Crew Leader program. I might start doing some actual construction as soon as this Saturday.
Posted by alex at June 27, 2005 07:39 AM