Several Cobb County high school students, include some who attend Pope and Walton in East Cobb, recently volunteered with the Cobb County High School Coalition on a recent home project in Mableton, along with the Lutheran Coalition for Habitat.
The groups co-sponsored the project with Smyrna-based Habitat for Humanity of NW Metro Atlanta and dedicated the first house of the year to single mother Kimberly Sylvester and her three children.
It’s the 25th Habitat home built by the students of the Habitat clubs of the Cobb County High School Coalition, and the 33rd Habitat home built in the region by the Lutheran Coalition for Habitat.
Other students attend Campbell and Hillgrove high schools.
The Lutheran Coalition for Habitat is a group of Lutherans in the metro Atlanta area who have agreed to partner with Habitat affiliates to eliminate substandard housing. Since 1994, the coalition has helped build 32 homes for families across northern Georgia, and for the last 15 years held an annual fundraiser to make this possible, called Taste of Habitat.
Kimberly Sylvester, 39, is a paraprofessional with the Cobb County School District and has children who are 18, 11 and three months old.
She was born in St. Lucia and raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands and moved to Cobb County seven years ago, renting an apartment.
Sylvester is the first in her family to own a home. The Lutheran Coalition and student volunteers built the home over nine Saturdays beginning in February.
Related posts:
- 13 Wheeler students earn scholarships in AVID program
- Kell HS senior earns $30K ‘For Atlanta’ scholarship
- McCleskey MS holds international night event
- Walton, Wheeler students earn National Merit Scholarships
- Brumby principal retiring; Sprayberry architect approved
- Cobb schools FY 23 budget includes ‘highest salary increase ever’
- Cobb school board to hold public hearings on FY23 budget
- Brumby ES unveils ‘The Aku Mural’ for community use
Get Our Free E-Mail Newsletter!
Every Sunday we round up the week’s top headlines and preview the upcoming week in the East Cobb News Digest. Click here to sign up, and you’re good to go!
We NEED the younger generation to help MORE in support of these Community Projects.
AND, any person running for ANY office in Georgia and proclaims “it is the worst state to live in” is subject to a Candidate removal or NON-VOTE !
Where is our Country going ???