LAKESIDE, Calif. — High school students got to work Wednesday, helping the homeless while getting credits in construction class. Construction students from five high schools in San Diego County are building six tiny homes alongside the Warrior Village Project.
"It’s the first really big project we’ve had, we’ve built sheds and stuff but it's the first big project, like a house," Rancho Buena Vista High Student Jorge Hernandez said.
"We’re definitely enjoying it because it's new experiences, new methods of what we do, it’s very fun," Student Juan Torres said.
When completed, four of the tiny homes will be given to non-profits to be put in the community to house homeless veterans.
"Kitchen, bathroom, living area, heating and air conditioning, but they're smaller and they're put on trailers so they can be transported and they're easier for students to build, less expensive to build," said Mark Pilcher.
Mark Pilcher is the founder of the Warrior Village Project, the organization behind the the mission.
"I realized that here we have an affordable housing problem, and we also have a need for students to go into the trades because we need the next generation of home builders," Pilcher said. "And I said well, that's an obvious thing to do, let's build houses and high school construction classes and accomplish two goals at the same time."
Dozens of high school construction students get to build experience while making a difference.
"It's going to show us electrical, plumbing, eventually we’re going to get into that, so its going to give us a little bit of experience in the basics of that field," Hernandez said. "It feels like a good deed like I’m doing a good deed, I’m helping people and it brings good karma."
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