Advocacy
The Ohio Northern chapter makes an effort to spread the message and ideals of Habitat for Humanity through education and action. Our goal is to aid in the fight against poverty, homelessness, and substandard housing by raising awareness on campus, in the community, and around the country.
Advocacy In Our Chapter
Spring Break Trips
Around 100 student member of the ONU chapter travel
around the country each year to put faith and advocacy into action by doing
Habitat work on a national scale. For more details on spring break trips check
out Spring Break Trips.
Act, Speak, Build Week
Events for 2007:
Monday, April 16 - English Chapel Sanctuary, 8:00 PM Chapter Meeting
Attend our weekly chapter meeting and participate in the Welcome Home Housing Simulation. The purpose of the simulation is to help student’s understand issues people with low incomes experience when seeking housing. Join in our chapter’s fellowship and help serve as a simulation housing administrator, to whom "homeless students" will be applying for housing.
Thursday, April, 19 - McIntosh Ballroom, 6:00 PM Habitat Hunger MealFor $5 guests will draw tickets which randomly assign them to a high-, middle-, or low-income tier and will be served a corresponding meal. Participation in this interactive event will uncover the inequalities of our world and will leave guests with a better understanding of the issues surrounding global hunger and poverty.
Monday - Friday, April 16 - 20 - Outside the McIntosh Dining Hall, 10 AM - 1 PM & 4 - 7 PM Habitat Block BuildMonetary donations will serve as a vote for which student organization’s Habitat Block Build home individuals like best.
Friday - Saturday, April 20 - 21 - On the Tundra, west of the Chapel, 5 PM - 12 PM Homeless for HabitatOur goal is to have university groups, Ada schools, businesses and other individuals sponsor boxes, decorate them to their liking, and have representatives sleep in the box overnight. The goal is to raise awareness about poverty and homelessness. We will have a variety of activities throughout the evening and into the night.
An entire week dedicated to HFH advocacy.Homeless for Habitat
This event raised awareness for the issues of homelessness, poverty, and
substandard housing through first hand experience. Organizations around
campus were invited to sponsor cardboard boxes and spend the night outside
in them. Facts about poverty were posted on boxes and speakers on homelessness
gave presentations and personal accounts. Through one night of discomfort,
participants got a taste of what over 700,000 men, women, and children in the
United States go through on any given night.
Hairless for Habitat
Professors and student volunteered to shave their heads and beards to raise money for Habitat.
Prices were set, and students were challenged to donate enough money to make the
volunteers go “Hairless for Habitat.”
ONU Welcome Fest
A campus-wide fair on the Tundra during the first week of classes where
student groups can set up booths to represent their clubs. ONU Habitat
focused on reaching out to new and returning students and recruiting new
members. Seasoned Habitaters were available to answer questions and provide
information about the chapter’s mission and events.
Wellness Fair
This is an annual event that promotes all types of wellness (physical,
mental, emotional, or spiritual). Members from both the campus and community
attend and gather information from all the presenters. Our HFH chapter presented
a poster on the work of Habitat for Humanity International, literature was passed
out, and members were available to answer questions about our chapter involvement
and spring break trips.
Brick-by-Brick
A fundraiser where we filled in the paper frame of a house “brick-by-brick.”
HFH members sat outside campus sporting events and sold paper bricks that participants
from ONU and visiting schools could write their names on and decorate to show their
support.