Aiken Ag is Building a Habitat for Humanity
Creating a world where everyone (and animal) has a decent place to live
Isha Rai is a 3rd year Ag student and graduating Senior who will be taking her talents to UC having developed quite a reputation as a leader of our Agriculture program from its beginnings.
March 1, 2023
With our focus on leadership this week, we are reminded of the post-Presidential work of Jimmy Carter. President Carter’s chief focus as
a humanitarian was with his work with Habitat for Humanity. Having just entered hospice, President Carter returned to his home to live
his final days in “a decent place to live.”
Within our Agriculture Career Tech Pathway, our students are tasked with making our school’s natural environment and animal
enclosures and habitats “a decent place to live.” To accomplish this goal, our students are made accountable as leaders, managers, and
visionaries of our present and future campus.
Our menagerie of animals are deserving of “a decent place to live,” which means that we need to care for their safety, health, nutrition,
and welfare. It is a constant task that is only accomplished with teamwork and leadership.
Fortunately, we have students who are accepting of such life or death responsibility. So, we build and mend fences; we close and secure gates; and we construct and clean enclosures with the purpose of ensuring “dignity and hope,” thus creating a “sustainable and transformative development” for our agriculture students, animals, & farm visitors.