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HBI Job Corps Students Participate in ‘Make a Difference Day’

Home Builders Institute (HBI) students enrolled at the Cassadaga Job Corps Center (CJCC) outside Buffalo, NY, are partnering with the Buffalo Niagara Builders Association (BNBA) and Habitat for Humanity to rehabilitate homes for area families.

Participating in “Make a Difference Day” last week under the supervision of HBI instructor Mike Giardina and Habitat for Humanity site supervisor George Copeland, 10 HBI students helped rebuild and revamp a home’s entire plumbing system.

HBI’s Job Corps students enrolled in carpentry, electrical and painting programs at the Cassadaga campus practice their hands-on training on behalf of local families through the Buffalo Niagara BA’s “Hammering for Habitat” project.

“Make a Difference Day” — created by USA Weekend Magazine — encourages people of all ages to participate on the fourth Saturday of every October in volunteer activities that support their communities.

HBI Job Corps students were involved in “Make a Difference Day” at locations around the country:

• In Alaska, students helped build a half-mile hiking trail using only hand tools and wheelbarrows.
• Hawaii JCC students painted over graffiti at Waimanalo Beach Park.

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• Roswell, NM, JCC's painting crew helped to repaint more than 3,000 fire hydrants.
• Hubert Humphrey JCC students from St. Paul built shelves and picnic tables, repaired benches and re-lamped common areas for Rueben Lindh Family Services in Minneapolis.
• At the San Diego JCC, students built a 30-foot lumber retaining wall and a headwaters dam and pool out of stone and mortar for Chollas Lake Park.
• Sacramento JCC students built and put up shadow boxes for the Agency for Hearing’s display of old hearing aid instruments.
• Grafton, MA, JCC students refinished the gymnasium floor at the Sacred Heart Parish in Worcester.
• Students from the North Texas JCC in McKinney painted cabins, repaired plumbing and refinished doors and tables at the Texoma Christian Camp.
• In Bangor, ME, Penobscot JCC students removed a local youth camp’s floating dock system; its 16 pieces weighed approximately 600 pounds each.
• In Maryland, Woodstock JCC students cleaned up the grounds of the African Union Methodist Protestant Church in Granite.
• And in Tucson, students at the Fred G. Acosta Job Corps Center helped rebuild an abandoned Boys and Girls Club building for Youth Works, including running potable water lines, hanging sheetrock and replacing the sub-floor.

For more information on HBI’s Job Corps programs, e-mail Maria McIntyre or call her at 800-368-5242 x8912.

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