Habitat for Humanity of Darlington County has one of the most active building programs in South Carolina and maybe in the country. Mark Hanechen, executive director, reports that this week Hartsville is going to be invaded by a force of more than 120 high school students from Maryland helping to build three more houses and finish a fourth that was begun last week by students from the Unitarian United Church of Charlotte. Here is part of Mark's note about this group coming to Hartsville:
Hartsville is about to be invaded by Severna Park, Maryland's WoodsWork. A group of 120 youth and 42 advisors are coming to build 3 Habitat homes and finish a 4th home started by UUCC last week. They will be here one week, then their college-age alumni will be here (32 of them) to put siding and sheetrock on the homes.
To imagine the size of this group, they would fill our movie theater. It takes half a semi truck load of food to feed them, and they are ordering 80 large pizza's for dinner the evening they arrive
The Hartsville First Presbyterian has also committed to building a Habitat house and this group, which provides homes for people who will put in the time to help in the building and some funds to buy the home makes homeowners of people who otherwise might not have been able to BUY.
Check out Darlington County Habitat for Humanity, their resale store, and all of the projects they have ongoing.
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