STUDENTS GO TO FLA. TO REBUILD HOMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 9, 1993                   TAG: 9301090259
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Jessica Martin
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short
STUDENTS GO TO FLA. TO REBUILD HOMES
Seventeen Roanoke College students will spend the last week of their winter break rebuilding homes hit by Hurricane Andrew in Homestead, Fla.
Members of the college's chapter of Habitat for Humanity will join Habitat Humanity International and Habitat's Greater Miami and Homestead affiliates today in the rebuilding effort.
The students will be accompanied by Ned Morris, the college's assistant to the chaplain.
The trip is partially funded through the college's Habitat chapter. In addition, each student is providing $150 to assist with costs.
Kim Knorr, a senior from West Chester, Pa., has gone on three other college-sponsored Habitat trips, but is expecting this one to be somewhat different.
"The situation is so chaotic, we really don't know what it will be like," Knorr wrote in a news release. "It looks like we will be working in new home construction and possibly helping to build a volunteer center."
Knorr, who has been a liaison between Habitat International and Florida Habitat chapters, said the motto for the trip is "Be Flexible."
Freshman Anthony Hopper said the purpose of the trip "is to help other people in need. I'm looking forward to the experience."
The college's Habitat chapter started in the spring of 1990 and has worked with Lynchburg and Roanoke affiliates to build homes and generate funds for other projects. The college chapter's long-term project is to raise enough funds to put a down payment on a Roanoke College Habitat for Humanity home.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB