GRAND RAPIDS -- Forest Hills Northern High School students, more than 1,000 of them, on Wednesday will celebrate the culmination of a year long effort to raise $70,000 and help build the first student-led Habitat for Humanity home in Michigan.
There are hearts, slogans of hope, persistence and other symbols of Husky pride adorning the two-by-fours making up the internal structure of the new home in the 1800 block of Jerome Avenue SW.
Students raised the money. They spent school days wielding tools and, perhaps more importantly, they helped an Afghanistan refugee mother and her two children move into their first real home in the U.S.
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