service
WUSY G has been working very hard building and renovating homes in some of the poorest areas in the country for the last 10 years. We have worked in inner city neighborhoods in New Jersey and Baltimore; in rural communities in Kentucky and Maine; and outside a reservation in Taos, New Mexico. Most recently we have built homes in Anniston, Alabama and Mt. Vernon Washington.
Although we'd planned to spend last February vacation 2005 working for Habitat Newark,
things went a little awry and we ended up working with an order of Franciscans
building a homeless shelter and soup kitchen! The city may pull building
permits but that will not stop us from building things.
In April 2005, 23 youth spent their vacation working on a Mohawk Reservation in upstate New
York, and in February on a reservation off the coast of Washington State.
In February 2006 we took a group of 43 over school vacation to do relief work with Project H.O.P.E and Common Ground in St. Bernard
Parish, Louisiana. Our hurricane relief work continues today, and 62 of us plan to
spend February vacation 2007 in Pass Christian, Mississippi working with
Persevere Relief, a group started by one of our WUSYG alumni.