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Nineteen Olivet College students and two staff members recently spent a weekend constructing a home for a low-income family near Pittsburgh, Pa….In one full day of work, the students were able to completely rough in the interior and exterior walls of a 1,000-square-foot, three-bedroom home….

Rev. Mike Fales, director of service learning and campus ministries, coordinated the trip. Assisting Fales was Jean Paul Cortes, a 2009 Olivet graduate who now serves as the college’s Michigan Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer.

»Read the full article in The Battlecreek Enquirer.

I have always had a drive to serve others and work for the common good. But I never fully realized that I could go beyond volunteerism--that my opinion and hard work could influence policy decisions. My views changed when I sat in the office of one of my legislators in Washington, DC."

-Amanda Coffin, University of Maine at Farmington, Campus Compact student leader

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