First Student Led Habitat For Humanity Home Built in Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - For the first time ever in Michigan, a group of high school students have paid for and built a Habitat For Humanity house.
It's a project way beyond what Forest Hills Northern High School students have ever taken on before, raising $70,000 and build a LEED-certified Habitat home.
It's all for Hafiza Baegzad. She's from Afganistan, and lost her husband in a car bomb explosion in 1995.
Close to 15 years later, the mother of four is living in Grand Rapids, and she's worked her way up to owning a Habitat Home she helped build from the ground up.
300 high school students joined her in the project. They broke ground back in March and put in more than 3200 hours to build the two story, four bedroom home on Jerome Street.
It's hard to believe, even for them, that they raised that kind of money in just ten months.
Student Brittany Worthington says, "It's kind of an intimidating goal at first, but when we really started brainstorming and getting creative we found some ways to fundraise this money."
Student Chrissy Wildt adds, "It's a great feeling, it really shows us and our community the dedication, that a common group of teens can really make a difference."
Baegzad and her children will move into the home in July.
