Tuesday, July 31, 2007

NCAA and Habitat for Humanity Score Big

From the NCAA's official website:

Last November, Pensacola, Florida opened its doors to the NCAA Division II Fall Championships Festival with more than 800 student-athletes competing for six national championships. Approximately 400 of those student-athletes, coaches and administrators returned the favor to the hurricane-affected city by volunteering to help construct six new homes with local residents. They did this as part of the NCAA Home Team, a partnership between the NCAA and Habitat for Humanity International. Another 100 volunteers from local Division II institution University of West Florida also contributed to the build.

Over a three-day period during the festival, volunteers worked to complete the exteriors for three homes on their slab foundations at the intersection of Idlewood Drive and Larkfield Circle and framed another three homes at Brosnaham Park, one of the championship venues. Those house frames were later moved to their permanent locations for completion.

In the past eight months since the conclusion of the Festival, the Pensacola Habitat for Humanity staff and volunteers worked with area high school volunteers and Habitat partner families to complete the homes. Now living in the completed homes, the six families could not be more pleased.

It's great that a bunch of athletes that aren't likely to see the big time in sports still made such an impact in what's truly important, people's lives.

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