[mit-habitat-exec] FW: Freshman Habitat Program

[Jeff Borowitz]

Marta is about a million times more competent and dedicated than I am.  Does
anybody know if Lawrence could do a full week thing?

I'll try to look into this soon

Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: Marta M. Luczynska [mailto:mluczyns at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 1:43 PM
To: borowitz at mit.edu
Cc: pestrada at mit.edu; ericker at mit.edu; susnowit at mit.edu
Subject: Freshman Habitat Program

Hey Jeff,

I've been looking for possible places where we could do the Habitat for
Humanity
project. 

In terms of Collegiate Challenge, there are summer options available. There
are
no affiliates in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, or Rhode
Island,
but there are two in Connecticut. Here's the information for those two
sites:

Bridge Port
Available Spaces: 25
Site Fee: $100/person (due one week prior to arrival)
Work Week: Mon-Sat with 1 day off (we choose the day off)

Hartford
Available Spaces: 20
Contribution: $100/person (due 1 week prior to arrival)
Work Week: Tue-Sat 8-4
* Requires that college group comes in with advisor or faculty member

(both sites provide free housing - we'd need to take care of food)

You can find more summer Collegiate Challenge sites here as well in case we
want
to go farther out (Pennsylvania for example, has a lot of options). 

http://www.habitat.org/ccyp/coll_chall/site_lists/Summer_2005.pdf

If we do the program through Collegiate Challenge, then on top of the site
fee,
we need to pay a $15 per person non-refundable program fee (which is not
much)
and we need to fill out registration, insurance, and waiver forms. There are
also going to be forms from the MIT end, but we can take care of those as
well.
The important thing is that we'd need to start getting things together soon
so
that one, we can claim the site, and two, so that we can get all the forms,
money, etc. in on time. 

I've also looked into Massachusetts Habitat sites from the Habitat
International
website. 

Boston, MA
http://www.habitat.org/script/link.asp?url=www%2Ehabitatboston%2Eorg
Work Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays and once a week on Sundays (so I'm
not
sure if this would be enough of a "work week")

Braintree, MA
http://www.habitat.org/script/link.asp?url=www%2Esshabitat%2Eorg
Work on homes done on Saturday's (same comment as above) 

North Shore, MA
http://www.habitatforhumanity-northshore.com/
We'd need to call and find out about more details on the work week, etc. but
the
Lynn project definitely looks like a possibility.

I'm not sure if you know of any other local affiliates or if these are some
of
the places where the MIT Habitat Chapter typically works. Either way, let me
know.

I've also cc'ed Paul Estrada and Elizabeth Ricker who expressed interest in
helping out with the project. If we do a project through Collegiate
Challenge,
we'd probably have a smaller group of people go in which case we'd only need
a
few coordinators. And, if we choose to do it in the second Connecticut site,
we'd need a faculty member/advisor. We might be able to get someone from the
PSC, course 1 or course 12 to go if we choose that route. We just need to
start
asking early. 

I've cc'ed Sally Susnowitz as well so that she knows what's going on. She
might
be interested in some of the sites (especially the Braintree Saturday one)
for
the Freshman Urban Program (FUP) :)

Please email me back when you get a chance and let me know what you think.

Marta