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Our History

Since 1981, Pickens County Habitat for Humanity has built or renovated more than 100 safe, decent, and affordable homes for more than 300 individuals in need.

1992 – Clemson University Campus Chapter forms.

Early campus chapter officers gather together.

Under the leadership of fourth-year architecture student Karl Barnett and an acting council of eight Clemson students, a group of approximately 50 students form a Campus Chapter in partnership with Pickens County Habitat.  The group begins to volunteer regularly with the affiliate and makes a goal to raise $25,000 to build a Habitat home under the advisement of sociology professor Dr. William Wentworth.  Plans for the now 28-year-old Homecoming Build tradition would soon begin in 1994 after the Campus Chapter participated in the building of a “cardboard city” on campus.  The experience showed the students the plight of homelessness and motivated them to do more.

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