by Shauntae Tyson
City of Brunswick
Brunswick resident Gibb Walker, 70, holds a photo of the World Changers student volunteer crew that put a new roof on his house on Mansfield Street last summer. (photos by Eliot VanOtteren)
At least 40 City of Brunswick homeowners will receive much needed repairs to their roofs this summer through the partnership of the City of Brunswick and the North American Mission Board’s World Changers program.
World Changers, a religious based, non-profit group, uses volunteers which consist of middle school, high school and college students; and a few young adults.
Currently 583 students have signed up to work this upcoming summer during the weeks of July 5 – July 16, 2010. The 583 volunteers will be divided into teams that will work on assigned properties for 35 hours each week. They are among 30,000 youth dispatched to about 100 cities by World Changers to repair and rebuild homes in low income neighborhoods.
In 2004 the City of Brunswick became an entitlement city and awarded Community Development Block Grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Since 2005 the City of Brunswick has allocated funds for roofing and painting materials for this summer program.
World Changers, a religious based, non-profit group, uses volunteers which consist of middle school, high school and college students; and a few young adults.
Currently 583 students have signed up to work this upcoming summer during the weeks of July 5 – July 16, 2010. The 583 volunteers will be divided into teams that will work on assigned properties for 35 hours each week. They are among 30,000 youth dispatched to about 100 cities by World Changers to repair and rebuild homes in low income neighborhoods.
In 2004 the City of Brunswick became an entitlement city and awarded Community Development Block Grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Since 2005 the City of Brunswick has allocated funds for roofing and painting materials for this summer program.
Michelle Helton, 17, works with her crew of volunteers to complete Walker’s new roof on Thursday, July 16, 2009. Helton, of Danville, Virginia, is on her tenth World Changers trip, and plans to attend again in 2010. “It is a lot of fun, ...repairing houses as well as sharing Christ with them,” said Helton. (photos by Eliot VanOtteren)Each house the World Changers volunteers repair will cost an average of $2,500 for supplies. The labor will be provided solely by the volunteers from World Changers, which averages about $180,000 in labor costs. Improvements made will coincide with the City’s overall effort to provide the residents of the City of Brunswick with safe and decent housing.
For more information about volunteering, church participation or to find out if your home qualifies for the Volunteer Home Repair Program, please contact Shauntae Tyson Walker at 912-280-1820 or by email styson@cityofbrunswick-ga.gov.
For more information about volunteering, church participation or to find out if your home qualifies for the Volunteer Home Repair Program, please contact Shauntae Tyson Walker at 912-280-1820 or by email styson@cityofbrunswick-ga.gov.
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