Volunteer Details for Oct 23/24th - Building on Faith

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We are very excited that Hindu Organization of Long Island will be
sending 3 volunteers per day to participate in this year’s Building on
Faith on Saturday/Sunday, October 23/24. We will be celebrating the
many different faith groups who partner with us in the cause of safe,
green, affordable housing for everyone.



Please respond to this email with how many volunteers you currently
have confirmed for the two days and the names of those confirmed
volunteers (including group leaders cell phone #) BY NEXT FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 15. If you do not have all of your volunteers confirmed yet,
that is OK, but please let me know your current situation as soon as
possible, to help us with planning.



This email has some important information for the volunteers who will
be building with us on the weekend. Please read through this email
thoroughly and communicate all of the following information to your
volunteers.



1) Make sure all your volunteers look through all of the
documents in our online volunteer toolkit: http://habitatnyc.org/volunteer/toolkit/index.html
and that they fill out a waiver form to bring with them on the day of
the build (the waiver is in the volunteer toolkit).

2) The address for the volunteer entrance is: 512 Lafayette
Avenue, Brooklyn NY (G train to Bedford-Nostrand stop).

3) Volunteers should plan to arrive at the site at 9:15am. Our
morning meeting will start at 9:45am sharp. Please make sure to
schedule in some buffer time in case it takes longer than expected to
travel to the site (if traveling by subway, check the MTA website for
any scheduled changes).

4) The volunteers will likely be working on installing or
painting. There may be some other tasks as well, but this will likely
be what most groups will be working on.

5) We will have a special lunch program from 12:30pm-1:30pm.
Lunch will be provided

6) During the lunch program, we will be hearing from 2 or 3
speakers representing the different religious traditions present at
the site that day. After the speakers share, we will be dividing the
group into small groups for some discussion (about 25 minutes). We
will have questions to help guide the discussion, but the focus will
be for the volunteers to talk about how their religious faith speaks
to the values of service and social justice, what value there is in
volunteering alongside people of other faiths, and whether there is
anything in particular about Habitat for Humanity that connects to
their faith and values. If your volunteers would like to think about
these questions ahead of time, it would likely enrich the discussion.

7) After lunch volunteers will return to the work of the day and
finished their assigned projects.



That should cover most of the details of the day. If you have any
questions, please feel free to contact me. Thank you again for
participating in this year’s Building on Faith.



Many blessings,

Matt





Matthew Dunbar

Faith and Community Relations Associate

Habitat for Humanity-New York City

mdu...@habitatnyc.org

212-991-4000 x320

212-991-3990 (fax)

www.habitatnyc.org