Western NC seniors build homes for Helene victims

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BURNSVILLE, N.C. — North Carolina high school students are using their carpentry skills to build tiny homes for Helene survivors.

Mountain Heritage High School in Burnsville has a carpentry class where students are busy building a home for a family who lost everything, WTVD in Raleigh reports.

The project is part of a new partnership with the Rebuilding Hollers Foundation.

Their teacher said they embraced the opportunity to give back.

“It makes me feel very proud knowing that I am able to help and change someone’s life that is in need through not only school but building and just helping out those that can’t really help themselves,” Croix Silver, a senior at Mountain Heritage High School, told WTVD.

The high school hopes to continue to build two to four tiny homes a year.

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