History of the Tikkun Olam Family Work Project

• August 2005 - a group from Boston traveled to Cumberland, Maryland for one week with parents and teens (ages 13 and up) to work with the Greater Cumberland Interfaith Consortium, a non-profit housing organization (the host organization) that buys blighted homes in the community and repairs them for rental or ownership by low-income people.
• August 2006 - a group of parents and teens from New England traveled to Limestone, Maine, to rehab a home that was in need of significant repair.
• August 2007 - two groups from New England. One group of parents and teens returned to Limestone, Maine, to rehab another home in need of repair and a second group of parents and children (11 years old up) traveled to Wilkes-Barre, PA, to complete the rehab of a condemned home, fence in a community vegatable garden and improve a book store that employs unemployed people.