Why do we do this every year?

I have asked myself and have been asked by others why we keep on cleaning up and improving the South Osborne underpass and raising money to put deserving families in homes of their own through Habitat for Humanity.

The main reasons are simple. The first is a belief that if we all took the time to improve the world we live in and by this I mean the actual part of the world we live in, the part we can actually change by our own actions, then the entire world would be an incredible place. The second reason is poverty. There is nothing more shameful to me as the privileged product of a wealthy society, than to see children grow up in poverty or a hard working parent not be able to provide the fundamentals to their family despite great efforts.