VALDOSTA, GA.(WTXL)-- The City of Valdosta welcomed around 207 youth and young adults Sunday for them to spend the next week of their summer vacation serving the Valdosta community.
The Southern Hospitality Work Camp of 2016 marks the 10th year the city has hosted the event to bring youth together to perform basic home repairs, painting, and minor construction at no cost to local elderly or disabled homeowners.
The campers arrived Sunday to get settled in their temporary living quarters in Valdosta Middle School. It represents campers from eight different states including Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan.
The camp aims to stop the deterioration of valuable housing stock and places the city closer to their goal of eliminating all substandard housing by the year 2020.
The event is credited with repairing 301 substandard local homes, to date.
