Tomorrow, Brentwood and Franklin High Schools’ Habitat High Clubs will be participating in a program called “Knock and Deliver,” in which they will distribute donation request packets door to door in hopes of receiving contributions towards the cost of building the 2014 Habitat High home for a local family.
The Habitat High Clubs pledge to raise funds and provide volunteers to build a home each year. This year, the recipients are the Pelfrey family and construction on their home will begin February 8th and students, faculty, volunteers and the partnering family will work together over a five-week period to complete the home.
The schools’ goal is to raise $70,000 to pay for the materials to build the home. “Knock and Deliver” is one of several fundraising efforts undertaken by the schools to reach this goal.
Centennial and Fairview High Schools are also participating in “Knock and Deliver” on January 25th. Any donation made is tax deductible.
Centennial High School biology teacher and Habitat High Club Sponsor Ross Lyons has been hard at work helping his students prepare for the campaign. “The students have an opportunity to be actively involved in the fundraising through “Knock and Deliver.” Students get involved in Habitat in order to help build the home from the ground up, but “Knock and Deliver” shows them that before there is a ground to build on, there is a lot of work to support the financing of the home.”
Habitat Williamson Volunteer Coordinator Billy Whipple has been working with the high schools since the beginning of the school year. “We are blown away by the hard work of the students. The clubs have come up with so many creative ways to raise funds, and individual students have created online donations pages that have together raised almost $4000 through social media for the Pelfrey’s home. We even had one student from Ravenwood High School who on her own collected $600 through her online giving page! We are off to a great start, but ‘Knock and Deliver’ will be paramount to our fundraising efforts. We still have a long way to go. We hope everyone who receives a request will donate and support the efforts of their local high school students.”
The Habitat High home will be dedicated on Sunday, March 9 to the Pelfrey family. “We want to become homeowners so we can have a stable and secure place for our child to grow up. We are forever thankful and grateful to everyone for helping our dream come true,” they said.
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