WKU News

Five members of the WKU Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter will begin their summer break with a volunteer project next week in Phoenix, Arizona.

The WKU group will be working with Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona on a new home for the Landaverde Lovatos Family in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria.

WKU participants in the May 6-11 trip are Bryan Reaka, chapter advisor and faculty member in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Juma Conn, a freshman Electrical Engineering major from Richmond; Corey Anthony, a senior Construction Management major from Louisville; Gabriel Gooden, a freshman Biochemistry major from Smithfield; and Kenneth Richie, a freshman undeclared major from Radcliff.

Contact: Bryan Reaka, (618) 610-8343

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