A Look Back at HONK's Fall Volunteers
Escuela secundaria del obispo Brossart
Students from Bishop Brossart have supported HONK's mission to renovate and rehabilitate older homes in urban Covington for more than two decades. They and their chaperones rolled up their sleeves on multiple days, priming, painting, shoveling, and even helping demolish a retaining wall to make way for a new one.
Every helping hand in this partnership brings us one step closer to creating safe, affordable homes for Northern Kentucky families. We're blessed they've had the heart to come out year-after-year.
The Point Arc / Zembrodt Education Center
Every October, students from the Zembrodt Education Center (part of El arco de puntos) volunteer at HONK, providing a wonderful opportunity for community interaction and hands-on rehabilitation projects.
This year, they worked with McKenzy and Jim on three of our Covington properties and HONK's own garage. From clearing shelves and trimming trees to tearing down sheds and painting, they’re helping create affordable homes in Northern Kentucky and gaining skills along the way. Each year, we celebrate their contribution with a fun and educational construction craft. The students learn to make a pumpkin out of wood and paint.
Kentucky REALTORS & Northern Kentucky Association of Realtors
Kentucky Volunteers from the Kentucky REALTORS® and Northern Kentucky Association of REALTORS® helped improve the curb appeal of one of our Covington properties by scraping along the front of the home, clearing away overgrown honeysuckle, and trimming back bushes to give the property a much-needed cleanup.
Meanwhile, volunteers from Thomas More University joined us for their annual Saint Serve Day, putting their time and energy into painting a Covington property we're actively rehabbing and bringing it one step closer to its next chapter.These hands-on efforts may look like landscaping, scraping, and painting, but they're about so much more. They're about neighbors helping neighbors, community partners investing in our neighborhoods, and people coming together to create opportunities for affordable homeownership.
