NUOP Students Lend Helping Hands To Habitat For Humanity
Niagara University students, including several members of the Niagara University Opportunity Program, gave up a pair of March Saturdays to volunteer their services with Habitat for Humanity in Niagara Falls.
The service project was organized by Sharon Green, coordinator of instructional services in NU’sOffice of Academic Support. Green previously received a Diversity Grant from the university to fund the initiative.
According to Green, the students were compelled to support a local reconstruction project after reading Zeitoun by Dave Eggers during a summer NUOP course she teaches. The book is based on a true story that chronicles the discrimination in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.