Left: Kaitlyn Craddock; Middle: Sara Twillmann; Right: Asia. Asia (pronounced Ash-ah) is a local volunteer for Habitat for Humanity who has been able to spend some time with us this week. She grew up in Gliwice where the first Habitat for Humanity homes were built in Europe. On her summer breaks from college she would […]
Gliwice (Gli-vee-say), Poland was the first city on the entire continent of Europe to establish a Habitat for Humanity office. We were able to attend a barbeque with a few of the residents of these Habitat homes.
A few of us helped measure, cut, and install pieces of metal to hang sheet rock on in a room.
This is the building we are helping renovate. It is over 100 years old.
Over the past few days we have been working at our site from 8am to 4pm, with the exception of today when we got off at 1:30pm. Everyone is exhausted from a long day at the site so it is difficult to keep our posts up to date. It’s exciting to see all of the […]
Yesterday I volunteered to run with Michal tothe grocery store to buy snacks, drinks, paper plates, and plastic cups for ourGlobal Village team. I had an experience while going to the grocery storethat has helped me better appreciate the plight of the Polish people. We passedseveral gas stations while driving and I noticed that the […]
We completed our second day at the work site today. Yesterday, we were all shown how to do different tasks around the shelter such as installing drywall, cutting and installing metal wall frames, jack hammering, busting plaster off of walls, carrying buckets of sand to make cement, and much more. Upon arrival today, everyone went […]
Yesterday was our very first day at our Habitat for Humanity site in a small town outside Katowice called Siemianowice siaskie (shem-yah-noveesta shclom-skyeh). When we first arrived to the site, we went through safety training and orientation. Not long after that, we were all put right to work. At our site, most of the construction […]
We started our Sunday off by having breakfast together at our hotel. Most of us spent our morning exploring the shops of Krakow as well as having lunch. At 1:30 a volunteer named Joanna (Yo-anna) met us at our hotel to escort us to Katowice (Kat-uh-vee-say) which is where we will be staying for the […]
We are a group of ten St. Louis College of Pharmacy students and this is our journey through Poland working with Habitat for Humanity, International. Our names are Lauren Brune, Kaitlyn Craddock, Kara Dyson, John Love, Lauren Owens, Paige Robinson, Drew Steppleman, Callie Stoner, Sara Twillmann , and Scott Wuebbels The first 48 hours of […]
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