ONE Pride: ONE House

February 11th, 2008 at 10:23 am

This Summer, the Student Government Association at the College of Charleston started a committee that we called the Cougar Spirit Initiative (CSI, clever aren’t we?). We knew that CofC would be a ONE Campus at the start of the semester but we wanted to extend this into every part of campus life. The best way to do this was to make it the theme of the biggest event during the year, Homecoming.

From the CSI we developed ONE Pride: ONE House, our 2008 Homecoming theme. It was going to be a blitz-build of a Habitat for Humanity House in downtown Charleston. This was our way to “think globally and act locally”. But we wanted to take it one step further. We wanted to extend this effort to the continent of Africa and our students performed.

So here’s the plan: for two weeks in February, 2000 volunteers from the College of Charleston and the surrounding Charleston community are building a Habitat home for the Nelson family in downtown Charleston. And we’ve already started! Two months ago, Project Harambee, a student group, traveled to Kenya and built an orphanage for community outside of Nairobi. We’ve linked poverty as a global problem. We’ve built a home in Kenya, and a home in our own back yard.

And we’re still building our Habitat House! We need to raise $60,000 and we’re only $10,000 short- so feel free to donate at cofc.edu/blitzbuild .  The house will be presented to the Nelson family on Feb. 16th at both an on-site ceremony and our homecoming basketball game.

Together, we’re uniting as ONE to show our pride with the true idea of a homecoming. ONE Pride: ONE House at the College of Charleston.

-Seaton

www.cofc.edu/blitzbuild

www.cofc.edu/homecoming

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