MIDDLEBURG – Instead of spending their Spring Break on a sandy beach or on a ski slope, 18 students from Seton Hall University spent the week working on a new home for Clay County Habitat for Humanity.

The volunteers worked on various projects on the home on Hibiscus Avenue before returning to classes in South Orange, New Jersey.

The Collegiate Challenge students began activities at the ReStore on Monday, March 6, and they spent the remainder of their trip at the construction site.

Activities at the site included hanging exterior vinyl siding and interior finishing work. The students worked alongside the Core Construction Volunteers and they had the opportunity to meet the CCHH Board of Directors, Family Selection Committee and Family Support Committee.

Through these interactions, they learned the importance of affordable housing and CCHH’s strategy to address this critical issue in our community. The community supported the event through Publix Super Markets being a lunch sponsor and Waste Not Want Not being a breakfast sponsor.

For more than 25 years, Habitat for Humanity has provided alternative school break volunteer opportunities to college students. Since this program began in the late 1980s, more than 250,000 individuals have committed to building safe and affordable homes across the United States.