Habitat Partnership Receives Governor's Award

Henry T. Clark, Partnership Committee Member

The Chapel of the Cross-UNC Student Habitat Partnership, along with several other agencies, was given the prestigious North Carolina Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service in special ceremonies held in Raleigh on September 9, 2003. Toa Veerasethakul, Co-chairman of the Campus Chapter of Habitat for Humanity, had the honor of receiving the award for the partnership in recognition of the fact that campus chapter members have provided much of the volunteer labor in constructing 16 Habitat homes in Orange County since 1994 and also have sent 10 teams of Habitat construction workers overseas to Honduras and, most recently, to Thailand, during that same period, as well as to various sites in the United States.

The citation from Governor Easley reads: “The Chapel of the Cross-UNC Student Habitat Partnership is hereby awarded the highest designation of appreciation for distinguished volunteer service to the people and the State of North Carolina and is to be granted and extended all honors and courtesies provided by this Office entitled thereunto by this certificate of recognition and appreciation.

[signed] Mike Easley,

Governor”