Students from Dreambuilders High School are helping put the finishing touches on the latest Habitat for Humanity – Yorkton home.
The students are from the ‘Career Prep and Skill Credit’ program.
They are working with Habitat Project Manager Gary Hutton to install the fence around the property.
It is an opportunity for invaluable experience for the students, and a feel good story all around.
Two to five students have been involved in the project as it has continued.
It is the school’s first time collaborating with Habitat for Humanity.
The project started when Dreambuilders approached Gary Hutton to help with the school’s workplace programming. Students are able to earn a credit as they develop and participate in special course training, like first aid, Saskatchewan Construction Orientation Training, and food safe, etc.
The school wanted to also bring in some trades programming and construction, and knew Hutton from his involvement in the community and he liked how Dreambuilder students could help finish the Habitat project off by building the fence.
So students have initially been involved in building the fence, but hopefully can continue with a construction project, like a gazebo or lean-to, that would provide more weather protection for our students in their outdoor classroom or courtyard at the SIGN on Broadway building.
