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LDS Youth Help Build Home in Maryland
TANEYTOWN, MARYLAND -- A group of 200 LDS youth joined the Pyle family, with
assistance from Interfaith Housing of Western Maryland to help build a home
for the family last weekend. The service project helped Tracy Pyle and her
two sons get started on their home, which was built under the project's home
building program. The program provides financial aid to purchase
construction supplies and training to help them build their home. Groups of
five families work on each other's homes until all five have been built. The
200 LDS teenagers arrived at the worksite at 8 am last Thursday and were
divided into groups under the supervision of adults. By the end of the day
the workers had built the home from just a foundation to the front and back
walls of the second story. "It's an opportunity for [us] to help someone
else," said Harold Virgin, a member of the Mormon group who served as a
construction supervisor. "[The teens] learn and work together, " he said.
"Most of all, they spend their time doing something constructive."
Building a home, building equity
Baltimore MD Sun 22Jul01 US MD Balt D1
By Jessica Fitzgerald: Sun Staff
With nonprofit's aid, lower-income families construct, buy houses
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