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| TSU student organizations lend support to Habitat for Humanity |
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group of Troy State University students is using its spare time
to help provide better homes for Pike County families. The 34 student members of the TSU chapters of Psi Chi, a national honor society for psychology students, and Psi Lambda, a psychology interest club, worked last fall to raise more than $2,000 for the Troy-Pike Chapter of Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that provides quality housing for qualifying families. The students plan to help build a home for a local family in the spring. The organizations decided at the beginning of the fall semester to adopt the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity for its annual philanthropy project, said Nicole Cross, Psi Chi president. “We tried to determine how we could help the most in the community,” Cross, a senior psychology major from Kingsport, Tenn., said. “There was a lot of interest in Habitat for Humanity and in helping a family move into a new house.” The students raised funds through a project titled “Pennies for Prosperity,” in which they collected pennies from TSU faculty, staff and students and from members of the Troy community. They also held an online silent auction, featuring the work of artists from the local community and the TSU faculty and student body. The projects generated nearly $2,200, Cross said, with $2,030 donated to the Troy-Pike Habitat for Humanity and $150 contributed to a foundation to benefit victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City. “We were very proud of the efforts and of the amount we were able to raise,” she said. The TSU students now plan to assist in the construction of a new Troy-Pike Habitat for Humanity home, located on Trojan Terrace in Troy. Cross said they will lend their skills to the home-building effort on weekends in February and March. “We thought that since we raised money, we should help with the hard work, too,” she said. “Any way we can help, we want to do it.” |