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Rebuilding Together and Gonzaga University Team Up to Rebuild During WCC Tournament

Posted on: Friday, 6 March 2009, 23:17 CST

Local Woman Benefits from WCC Tournament in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS, March 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rebuilding Together Southern Nevada, an affiliate of Rebuilding Together, the nation's leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize communities, along with Gonzaga University Alumni will team up this weekend to assist local homeowner Vivian Beach.

Beach, 83, is legally blind and has been unable to complete the repairs needed at her home. Rebuilding Together and Gonzaga plan to remodel her kitchen which will include a new dish washer, electric stove and a washer and dryer for her laundry room. The groups will also help clean her yard and do some landscaping.

"Gonzaga University has a very successful basketball team, but the school is about so much more than sports. The students, faculty, staff and the alumni are people who care about their communities. When the decision was made to have the WCC Tournament in a neutral city, Las Vegas, it seemed natural to have the GU community come together and give something back," stated Mary Herche, a member of the Gonzaga University Board of Regents and National Board Chairwoman for Rebuilding Together.

Herche continued, "Gonzaga fans will show that when they come into a community for basketball games, they leave it better than they found it by coming together and helping a person in need. The Southern Nevada program had a woman who needed our help it seemed like the perfect way to score in the community as well as on the courts."

The Gonzaga Alumni volunteers will also be teaming with volunteers from St. Rose Dominican Hospital Facilities Management group for that day.

To find out more about Rebuilding Together go to www.RebuildingTogether.org.

About Rebuilding Together:

Rebuilding Together is the nation's largest nonprofit organization working to preserve affordable homeownership and revitalize neighborhoods by providing home repair and renovation services at no cost to those in need. Through the support of corporate sponsors, local businesses and the hands-on work of over 200,000 volunteers, Rebuilding Together renovates and repairs nearly 10,000 homes and nonprofit facilities annually with a market value of nearly $100 million.

In addition to its core home repair work, Rebuilding Together renovates community centers and conducts home modification and repair programs that focus on elder home safety, energy efficiency, veterans housing, and disaster recovery and reconstruction. Rebuilding Together has more than 200 affiliates nationwide. For more information, visit www.RebuildingTogether.org.

SOURCE Rebuilding Together

Source: PR Newswire

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