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Letter: Build a Block

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Staff

The Carolina Library Community is raising $35,000 and 2,000 hours of labor to help build a Habitat for Humanity house this school year. This is part of the UNC Build a Block project. The project is a student-led initiative to build 10 Habitat for Humanity houses for University and UNC Hospital employee families during the 2010-11 school year.

When Habitat for Humanity of Orange County collected applications for their new housing site, 85 percent of the applicants turned out to be UNC employees. The people qualifying for Habitat housing have jobs but still cannot afford adequate housing. They put in sweat equity to help build their houses, in addition to working their normal jobs, and then they repay these mortgages.

I am personally volunteering to help the Library Community build a house because these applicants are my coworkers, neighbors and friends. I see their hard work every day on campus, I see their positive impact in the community and I want to see them in a house.

Ask anybody and they will tell you this is a really hard time to be fundraising. People are losing their jobs on and off campus, many people were already unemployed before and we are staring at massive budget cuts later this year. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I know what’s happening now and what we can do to help.

Our next fundraiser will be a bingo night tonight (Thursday) from 6 to 9 p.m. in Century Hall at the Carrboro Century Center. All ages are welcome. Bingo cards will cost $1 and we will be selling drinks for $1 and snacks for $0.50.

Come have some fun, win prizes from local businesses, and please help us build this house.

Liz Garner
Member, Library Build a Block Task Force
UNC

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