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Hi Habitaters,

Please help us out and vote for this picture that Cal Habitat has submitted to the contest! If we win, we could potentially be up on a BILLBOARD in the East Bay, exciting stuff, and great publicity! Help us and vote – you can vote once every 24 hours

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THANK YOU! GRACIAS! VIELEN DANK! CAM ON! GRAZI! XIE XIE! to ALL the HABITATERS who came out to do concessions over Veteran’s Day weekend. Cal’s Men Basketball dominated in both Friday and Sunday’s games, while we dominated in hotdog/popcorn/pretzel sales! This weekend was a DREAM TEAM! Your hard work has brought us closer to sponsoring a home! To relive the wonderful experience/ see the behind-the-scenes action of running a concession stand, check out PHOTOS on our flickr page

Jamaica is a beautiful island nation in the Caribbeans, home to about 2.8 million people. However after the harsh economic reforms of trade liberalization, privatization, and deregulation imposed by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), the economy has been facing mounting levels of debt while supporting a national economy that is highly dependent on imports from foreign countries (in particular the United States).

So come out for a special screening of this illuminating documentary to learn about just one of the many stories of how structural adjustment policies have had a long-lasting, detrimental impact on the social, economic, and political structures of many developing countries today.

This event is sponsored by Cal Berkeley Habitat for Humanity as a fundraising effort for our Collegiate Challenge trip to Jamaica this winter break! A team of 22 volunteers will be spending a week there to do construction and renovation on four different homes in two cities. The families we will be helping are living in homes that are structurally unsafe, lack windows and doors, and have inadequate roofing.

There will be food available for purchase or a suggested fundraising donation box. Your donations will go towards buying materials and tools to help restore the homes. More details coming soon!

For more information about the documentary, check out the official website:
http://www.lifeanddebt.org/

Hope to see you all there!

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Hey everybody Berkeley Build Day is fast approaching! If you do not know about the event here is some info about it:

On Saturday October 29th we will be having a fundraiser for our partner organization Habitat East Bay. This day is a special build for us because the site is reserved for more than 50 of our members. Also there are plenty perks for volunteers to participate as a result. Volunteers who work that day receive: Breakfast & Lunch, a t-shirt, a raffle ticket for prizes, and automatic active membership. There is a fundraising requirement of $50 for each volunteer. All of the money we raise sponsors a Habitat home, currently we have raised $80% of the $100000 necessary to build a home of our own!