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7 Newtown Churches, YMCA Help Build Homes for Low-Income Families
Newtown teens, seven local churches and the YMCA partnered to help low-income families in Illinois rebuild and repair their homes.
Newtown, CT — High school students from Newtown spent the week in Rockford, IL helping repair several low-income homes, according to MyStateline.com.
The program, Rockford Work Camps (RWC), is a project of Rockford Urban Ministries that provides volunteer labor to help the city’s low-income neighborhoods, food pantries, homeless shelters, and environmental protection areas, according to their website.
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Projects include demolishing and renovating housing for low-income families, providing services to neighborhood soup kitchens, food banks and pantries, homeless shelters and youth outreach programs, the website states.
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Seven Newtown churches, the YMCA and Rockford Work Camps collaborated for the service trip, a project they've participated in for the last 10 years, according to the report.
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