High school carpentry students in Lundar have built two ready-to-move homes to help Habitat For Humanity in Guatemala. Donald Nikkel explains how it all started.

Interior of their ready to move house for auction"So, with the ready to move homes, it's just been a slow process. I guess five years ago we started by building some sheds here at the school. And I just realized the value of kind of working on those bigger projects when students get together as a group, and they kind of see what the can accomplish. There's just a real pride of ownership, and that was just really good to be part of."

He says efforts grew larger.

"From there what we did is we built an outdoor classroom the following year, and then we decided to up the ante once more, and we built a ready to move home. At the end of that year we auctioned it off. Then we started in on another RTM on the following year. That's the one we're completing right now. And we've taken this one to a complete finish stage. So, that has the flooring in, the cabinets in."

Student at the ready to move house for auctionRyan Marshall's one of the students who took a trip to Guatemala to build a house. He describes his experience.

"It was great. Everywhere around us you could other buildings that were built from cinder blocks. They were just falling apart. But when we were down there, the house we were building -- even though we left when it is was only halfway completed --- you could tell it was a better quality than everything else. And it felt good knowing they were going to have good housing the rest of their life."

Student team in Guatemala