CLEMSON, S.C. — Before their football teams met on Saturday night, students from Clemson University and Virginia Tech spent Thursday and Friday working side by side on a Habitat for Humanity project set up on Bowman Field.
The visiting Hokies volunteers helped Clemson students put together a play shed that goes with this fall’s Homecoming Build house. It was the first year students from another school joined in on a side project at the build, and the shed was set to be raffled off at the game, with entries sold at $20 apiece.
The Homecoming Build is organized by the university’s student Habitat chapter, which belongs to the Pickens County affiliate. Each fall, volunteers frame a house on Bowman Field over about two weeks, fitting the work in between classes. This year’s home has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Once the framing is done, each house is hauled to its permanent lot and finished with community volunteers and the family that will live there.
Since 1993 the chapter has finished 33 homes in Clemson, Liberty, Pickens and Easley, which the group says adds up to nearly 100 people with stable housing.
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