Barron County Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization located in Northwestern Wisconsin dedicated to eliminating poverty housing. BCHFH was started in 1996 and has helped 20 low-income families have decent affordable housing.
ASBW Day 3: Writing Letters To State Representatives
April 12, 2015
The Mayor of Barron, David Vurnick, spoke to the students about the need for affordable housing in the city of Barron!
After learning about the strong need for affordable housing in their community, the students then paired off to write letters to Wisconsin State Representatives!
"Dear Romaine Quinn,
We are Alora and Kaylee. We do not like the substandard housing that exists in Barron and throughout the world. These houses represent our interst in construction of simple, decent homes. Please consider this when you are in a position to support housing.
Thank you for your time,
Katie and Alora"
The Students then made paper model Habitat Homes to send with their letters!
The kids learned how to make model Habitat Homes out of cardboard boxes!
These homes display an actual floor plan of a Habitat for Humanity two bedroom house in the U.S. Habitat for Humanity, together with volunteers and future homeowners builds simple, decent, affordable houses like the ones the children made and sells them using affordable interest free mortgages!
Act! Speak! Build is a youth program in which it's participants learn about the need for affordable housing not just in their community, but world wide! For Habitat's Act! Speak! Build! Barron County Habitat partnered with the Riverview Middle School Boys and Girls Club in Barron, WI. Their participation in this program is extra special because they are the only children taking part in this program in northern Wisconsin! Prior to this event, the children learned about Barron County Habitat and advocacy.
On Monday April 11th, the children learned how to spread the word by making posters!
The posters displayed information about Habitat and the need for affordable housing worldwide! For example: 1.6 Billion people are live in inadequate shelter world wide!
