Build America Tool Safety and Skill Building Day 1 Intro

If I started a sentence with the following; twenty fraternity brothers from Pi Kappa Phi got together for the whole summer to . . . The majority of people would assume, party hard, cause trouble or worse. But this email request to you is just the opposite, I'm contacting you in hopes that you would consider assisting me on a great charity cause.

This summer for 2 days [On June 31st  and July 1st]  Ten carpenter friends, Concord Lumber, Milwaukee Power Tools and I will volunteer  to train 22 fraternity brothers, from all over the country, on tool safety and skill building in preparation for a program called Build America. This training will be conducted at a clients barn on Balls Hill Rd, Concord.

 Build America is a six-week construction event where team members travel the country promoting accessible recreation for people with disabilities. At the core of Build America is the construction of accessible environments and camps serving the disability community. In six weeks, the team will build accessible fishing piers, nature trails, climbing walls and many other amenities providing opportunities for campers to experience everything summer camp has to offer.

Throughout the summer, the team will log over 4,000 man hours, save camps and communities $50,000 in labor costs, over $30,000 in materials expenses and impact the lives of thousands of people with disabilities.

The best experience on this journey is in the evenings when team members gather with campers for dinner and other camp activities. This is the time team members say is most rewarding. They get to spend quality time with the very people who are benefiting from their hard work. These are the times that create the special memories of camps and lifelong friends.

There is no experience like Build America and being able to leave a tangible product after departing a camp or community sets this event apart from all other events offered by The Ability Experience.

The Ability Experience is a 501 (c)(3), national philanthropic organization of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, that has a mission of using “shared experiences to support people with disabilities and develop the men of Pi Kappa Phi into servant leaders” and a vision of creating “a community, one relationship at a time, where the abilities of all people are recognized and valued”.

[JohnDunn]

This is great you are teacher young people waiting to see more of this.
JD

[jackbrennan]

Wish I could be there, looks like a lot of fun.