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IMPACT'S 
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 
NEW MEXICO PROJECT 2003

Thirteen Rye High School students from Impact spent their spring break in New Mexico building houses with Habitat for Humanity. 

 The group, chaperoned by Dick and Judy Murdoch and Katie Pate, framed the interior walls

and installed the trusses on one house,

and primed the interiors of two other houses.  

Dust storms and scorpions didn't deter this group from working to create communities of affordable housing.

Impact students took turns leading morning devotions on the worksite, and workdays lasted eight hours.  

Within the next five years, sixty-three houses will be built in this development in Belen, New Mexico, south of Albuquerque.

 Off time was spent whitewater rafting in the Rio Grande,

playing laser tag, learning about Southwest Indian Culture at Acoma Pueblo, 

and riding the Sandia Tram to 11,000, feet!

 IMPACT's Habitat for Humanity excursions, which take place during the spring semester, are open to all Rye area high school students, ages sixteen and higher.