Each year, we send students to Northern Kentucky to participate in 'WorkFest' to build houses for impoverished families in the Appalachian Mountains.
The Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) works to develop sustainable economic improvements in Appalachia. Volunteers live and work in the community year round. WorkFest is an opportunity for college students to help in their mission of assisting the people of Appalachia pull themselves out of poverty.
Students will have transporation to Kentucky and stay in the CAP mission center. We will work alongside and form friendships with the skilled construction volunteers for the week and the families whose homes we will be fixing.
WorkFest is designed to expose college students both to the culture of Appalachia (religion, music, simplicity of life) and to the astounding level of poverty.
The hope is that students will take what they learned about the Gospel, about social justice, and about combating poverty and allow it to transform their everyday lives after they return to the University of Florida campus.
In addition to working with CAP, we send students on FOCUS mission trips each year! FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, sends teams of students with their missionaries on mission trips throughout the year! For more information check out their website here. Nick Williams, our FOCUS team director, will also have more in