Twenty-eight students will travel with The University of Findlay’s Habitat for Humanity chapter to Raleigh, N. C., March 4-10 for an alternative spring break trip.

Four UF faculty and staff members will accompany the students who will donate their time and labor to build a Habitat for Humanity home.

Habitat for Humanity’s international alternative spring break program, also called the Collegiate Challenge, has been providing deserving families with homes since 1989. The challenge has grown into one of the largest year-round alternative break programs in the United States. The trip will mark the UF Habitat chapter’s sixth annual alternative spring break program.

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat for Humanity builds and rehabilitates houses with the help of the partner families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable, no-interest loans. The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments are then used to build more Habitat houses.