Collegiate Challenge Program
Habitat Forsyth has hosted 100 different groups with 182 group visits in total since 2011!
Habitat Forsyth’s Collegiate Challenge program provides year-round alternative school break service trips to high school, college students, and church mission trips from across the United States.
When students volunteer with Habitat Forsyth to ensure that every family has a safe and affordable place to call home, the effects can be life-changing for families with far-reaching impact on health, educational and economic outcomes.
Service volunteering can be equally transformative for students as they learn on the frontlines and witness their own potential for making an impact.
FUN FAQs:
- We have had groups from as far away as Oregon, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts.
- We charge just $200 for the week. We provide a pantry full of breakfast items, we provide lunches, and wonderful people in the community provide dinners! Do you want to volunteer to provide dinner for or join our guests on the build site? Contact Debbie Cesta at debbie.cesta@habitatforsyth.org and 336-306-8419.
- Groups build Monday through Friday – and sometimes, on Mondays, there’s a need for their help with a procurement project to benefit the ReStores.
- Habitat Forsyth hosts 20 participants at a time in the Volunteer Lodge.
- We built the Volunteer Lodge in memory of longtime board member and volunteer builder, Jimmy Johnson, who was passionate about the Habitat mission. Jimmy’s family and friends helped fund the Lodge and have provided dinners for the students ever since.
Student Testimonies
Gann Academy – May 2017
Villanova – Ocotber 2018