| Loyola Dedicates Second Habitat for Humanity House |
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MICUA Matters Summer 2008
Service learning is an important element of the educational experience at Loyola College in Maryland, which contributes over 5,000 hours in community service each year and is known throughout the region and nation as a leader in the field. The culmination of one recent project-Loyola's second Habitat for Humanity home, located in West Baltimore's Sandtown neighborhood-was reached in a dedication ceremony on April 26. Sandtown Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit housing organization that builds and rehabilitates vacant houses-in partnership with the new homeowners-through volunteer labor and private funding.
Loyola sponsored its first house through Habitat for Humanity's Sandtown affiliate in 2005. To meet the sponsorship requirement of $25,000, Loyola's Habitat chapter raised money through private and corporate donors, a St. Patrick's dinner, coin collection, and t-shirt sales. That first house was completed and dedicated in April 2007. Loyola volunteers began work on a second house, which had been vacant for 12 years, last September. Volunteers consisted mainly of Loyola students, with assistance from community groups, such as sports teams and college departments as well as current and future Habitat homeowners. Plans for a third house are in the works.
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