MCC students Brittany McGuire and Jared Blake of Burlington recently returned from a trip to Cambodia where they helped with Habitat for Humanity. COURTESY PHOTO
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The Lowell Sun
Updated: 1st January, 2012
LOWELL -- A pair of Middlesex Community College students recently returned from a trip to Cambodia, where they helped Habitat for Humanity build 22 new homes for the homeless people of Phnom Penh.
Jared Blake of Burlington and Brittany McGuire of Westford were able to take the trip thanks in great part to the support of the MCC Foundation.
The project was directed by Habitat for Humanity, which built 22 houses in five days.
McGuire called the project "a great instance of the school's social responsibility commitment for co-curricular engagement opportunities."
"The trip has changed me in both subtle and profound ways, and it will forever shape the way I view things," she added. "I believe that, overall, a trip like this offers people more perspective about how the world works, and I am eternally grateful to have been granted such a privileged opportunity."
Blake added, "We were helping a family by giving them a safe and secure place to live. It was a house that was in all meanings of the word their home. They own this now, and through Habitat for Humanity, they will now be helped to start a business to give their lives some focus other than rummaging through trash to find food and things to sell."
Sun staff photos can be ordered by visiting our MyCapture site.
The Lowell Sun
Updated: 1st January, 2012
LOWELL -- A pair of Middlesex Community College students recently returned from a trip to Cambodia, where they helped Habitat for Humanity build 22 new homes for the homeless people of Phnom Penh.
Jared Blake of Burlington and Brittany McGuire of Westford were able to take the trip thanks in great part to the support of the MCC Foundation.
The project was directed by Habitat for Humanity, which built 22 houses in five days.
McGuire called the project "a great instance of the school's social responsibility commitment for co-curricular engagement opportunities."
"The trip has changed me in both subtle and profound ways, and it will forever shape the way I view things," she added. "I believe that, overall, a trip like this offers people more perspective about how the world works, and I am eternally grateful to have been granted such a privileged opportunity."
Blake added, "We were helping a family by giving them a safe and secure place to live. It was a house that was in all meanings of the word their home. They own this now, and through Habitat for Humanity, they will now be helped to start a business to give their lives some focus other than rummaging through trash to find food and things to sell."
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