What Is A Habitat Community Youth Group?
Community Youth Groups are youth-led and youth-run organizations of Habitat for Humanity. They are composed of diverse representation from the local community such as youth leaders from schools, churches, businesses, home-partner youth associations and other youth service organizations. Groups work in partnership with a local affiliate in building, educating, fund-raising, community development and spearheading youth leadership development. An affiliate is an independent, locally-run, non-profit volunteer group. Each affiliate organizes fund-raising and donations of materials; house construction using volunteers and, where appropriate, paid specialist construction workers; as well as mortgage repayments. A Community Youth Group essentially operates as the ?youth wing? of an affiliate, and a HFH affiliate staff person acts as an adviser to the group. A group is expected to work in partnership with the affiliate, following fund-raising guidelines developed by Habitat for Humanity.
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