{"id":91371,"date":"2020-06-26T08:36:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=91371"},"modified":"2024-01-04T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T19:58:16","slug":"ddn-wright-state-students-donate-to-tornado-victims-new-habitat-for-humanity-hom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/06\/26\/ddn-wright-state-students-donate-to-tornado-victims-new-habitat-for-humanity-hom\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News: Wright State students donate to tornado victims\u2019 new Habitat for Humanity home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Compassion in Action, a student organization, made a donation to help building a Habitat for Humanity house.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A group of Wright State students donated $500 to Habitat for Humanity to go toward new home for a Trotwood family whose apartment was heavily damaged during the 2019 Memorial Day tornadoes.<\/p>\n

The donation went to the purchasing of materials and paying the site manager for a new home for Monica Thomas and her two children. The family\u2019s Trotwood apartment was heavily damaged in the Memorial Day tornadoes in 2019. Thomas works third shift at Miami Valley Hospital North and has volunteered with Habitat.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonica is a really special person,\u201d said David Mauch, development director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Dayton. \u201cShe\u2019s been through a lot lately. She\u2019s just a real inspiration to us at Habitat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Construction on the three-bedroom, one-bathroom home began in January but was stopped in March when the COVID-19 pandemic prevented people from volunteering. Work has recently resumed after volunteers returned under new safety guidelines at the construction site.<\/p>\n

The students are involved in a student service organization on campus called Compassion in Action that strives to donate to a local charity each semester and volunteer monthly.<\/p>\n

The student organization raised the money for the home by soliciting donations and holding bake sales and sports tournaments.<\/p>\n

Caleb Black, a senior biomedical engineering major and co-founder of Compassion in Action, worked on the home before the COVID-19 pandemic stopped construction. He described the moment of giving Habitat for Humanity the donation with Thomas present as special.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can never really see what that moment\u2019s going to be like until it comes and you see her face light up,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s really excited about getting this house and what it\u2019s going to mean for her and her kids.<\/p>\n

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