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NSCC Team Spends 8 Days in Haiti to Build a Home
A team of North Shore Community College staff and students recently traveled to Haiti with Partners in Development to build a home as part of the nonprofit's housing initiative.
A team of staff and students at North Shore Community College in Danvers recently spent eight days in Haiti to build a new house for a poor Haitian family.
The Andover Townsman reports the group was volunteering with Partners in Development, a nonprofit faith-based organization in Ipswich that has launched long-term poverty relief efforts in Haiti and Guatemala. Three members of the group were Andover residents.
According to the Townsman, the team was working in 95-degree dusty conditions in the town of Blanchard, which is in a new neighborhood called Canaan outside the capital of Port-au-Prince.
The trip was led by NSCC academic counselor Marty Rodweller and NSCC staff tell the paper the college is considering creating a formal international studies program based on feedback from this experience.
You can read more on this story here in the Andover Townsman.
You can also find out more about Partners in Development here. The video above explains the PID housing initiative in Haiti in general.
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