Casco Bay High School Juniors
Partner with Habitat for Humanity

Casco Bay High School in Portland Maine is an expeditionary school that encourages its students to serve society. In April of 2010, the junior class traveled to West Virginia to participate in something called the Junior Journey -- a weeklong volunteer project in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. They worked with the Almost Heaven Habitat for Humanity Volunteer Center in Franklin, West Virginia, assisting in building a home for a local family.

The students not only had a chance to literally dig in to a worthy service project but also went beyond comfort zones by traveling to a different climate of the United States (both culturally and physically!) and bunking together in close quarters with their peers.

There was an option for students to participate in a Portland based Habitat for Humanity project as well.

To read about their experiences, click on this link to blogs and photos from both locales: http://blogs.portlandschools.org/juniorjourney2010/

Here’s a link to the Almost Heaven Volunteer Center: http://www.almostheavenhabitat.org.