COVER Home Repair - Community Participation Program

In August 2020, Devin Silovich spent two days working with COVER Home Repair. Devin found time to volunteer thanks to the Bio X Cell Community Participation Program (CPP), which gives employees the opportunity to be paid for up to 16 hours of qualifying service per year.

COVER Home Repair is a nonprofit volunteer-run organization based in White River Junction, Vermont, that completes more than 70 urgent home repair projects each year. They focus on repairs that improve a home’s ability to provide a safe, comfortable, and healthy environment for its inhabitants. The most common projects completed by COVER Home repair include roof repair, accessibility ramp construction, structural floor repair, and weatherization.

Devin spent two workdays volunteering with COVER Home repair on two different projects. At both worksites, masks were worn, and CDC safety guidelines were followed.

The first day, Devin and two other helpers spent the day in White River Junction, VT tearing off a rotted access ramp from a home and replacing it with new, safe stairs.

The second day was spent in Norwich, VT stabilizing a mobile home that was sitting on decaying cinderblocks. There were eight volunteers working at this site, and Devin, along with another volunteer, spent his day building an exterior shed to house the home’s utilities. Prior to this project, the utilities had been located beneath the unstable trailer. Devin did not see the final result of the foundation stabilization project, as COVER Home Repair planned to return to the site for the second day of work, and Devin was needed back in the lab.

Devin really enjoyed participating in these projects with COVER Home Repair. He appreciated learning some new carpentry skills, while at the same time bringing to the table his own skill set and knowledge gained from his experience working in an excavation. He said he felt tired at the end of each long day of physical work but also felt good that he had taken time to help those in his community who needed it. Devin was impressed that one of his fellow volunteers had been a recipient of COVER Home Repair services a few weeks previously and was now taking the time to give back to the organization by helping others.

When asked if he still would have found time to volunteer had it not been for the CPP, Devin said “This was the extra push I needed to get out there and do it. I certainly think I will continue to do it [volunteer] in the future without receiving ‘credit’ for it. Even if it means taking vacation time. In August 2020, Devin Silovich spent two days working with COVER Home Repair. Devin found time to volunteer thanks to the Bio X Cell Community Participation Program (CPP), which gives employees the opportunity to be paid for up to 16 hours of qualifying service per year.

COVER Home Repair is a nonprofit volunteer-run organization based in White River Junction, Vermont, that completes more than 70 urgent home repair projects each year. They focus on repairs that improve a home’s ability to provide a safe, comfortable, and healthy environment for its inhabitants. The most common projects completed by COVER Home repair include roof repair, accessibility ramp construction, structural floor repair, and weatherization.

Devin spent two workdays volunteering with COVER Home repair on two different projects. At both worksites, masks were worn, and CDC safety guidelines were followed.

The first day, Devin and two other helpers spent the day in White River Junction, VT tearing off a rotted access ramp from a home and replacing it with new, safe stairs.

The second day was spent in Norwich, VT stabilizing a mobile home that was sitting on decaying cinderblocks. There were eight volunteers working at this site, and Devin, along with another volunteer, spent his day building an exterior shed to house the home’s utilities. Prior to this project, the utilities had been located beneath the unstable trailer. Devin did not see the final result of the foundation stabilization project, as COVER Home Repair planned to return to the site for the second day of work and Devin was needed back in the lab.

Devin really enjoyed participating in these projects with COVER Home Repair. He appreciated learning some new carpentry skills, while at the same time bringing to the table his own skill set and knowledge gained from his experience working in an excavation. He said he felt tired at the end of each long day of physical work but also felt good that he had taken time to help those in his community who needed it. Devin was impressed that one of his fellow volunteers had been a recipient of COVER Home Repair services a few weeks previously and was now taking the time to give back to the organization by helping others.

When asked if he still would have found time to volunteer had it not been for the CPP, Devin said “This was the extra push I needed to get out there and do it. I certainly think I will continue to do it [volunteer] in the future without receiving ‘credit’ for it. Even if it means taking vacation time. In August 2020, Devin Silovich spent two days working with COVER Home Repair. Devin found time to volunteer thanks to the Bio X Cell Community Participation Program (CPP), which gives employees the opportunity to be paid for up to 16 hours of qualifying service per year.

COVER Home Repair is a nonprofit volunteer-run organization based in White River Junction, Vermont, that completes more than 70 urgent home repair projects each year. They focus on repairs that improve a home’s ability to provide a safe, comfortable, and healthy environment for its inhabitants. The most common projects completed by COVER Home repair include roof repair, accessibility ramp construction, structural floor repair, and weatherization.

Devin spent two workdays volunteering with COVER Home repair on two different projects. At both worksites, masks were worn, and CDC safety guidelines were followed.

The first day, Devin and two other helpers spent the day in White River Junction, VT tearing off a rotted access ramp from a home and replacing it with new, safe stairs.

The second day was spent in Norwich, VT stabilizing a mobile home that was sitting on decaying cinderblocks. There were eight volunteers working at this site, and Devin, along with another volunteer, spent his day building an exterior shed to house the home’s utilities. Prior to this project, the utilities had been located beneath the unstable trailer. Devin did not see the final result of the foundation stabilization project, as COVER Home Repair planned to return to the site for the second day of work, and Devin was needed back in the lab.

Devin really enjoyed participating in these projects with COVER Home Repair. He appreciated learning some new carpentry skills, while at the same time bringing to the table his own skill set and knowledge gained from his experience working in an excavation. He said he felt tired at the end of each long day of physical work but also felt good that he had taken time to help those in his community who needed it. Devin was impressed that one of his fellow volunteers had been a recipient of COVER Home Repair services a few weeks previously and was now taking the time to give back to the organization by helping others.

When asked if he still would have found time to volunteer had it not been for the CPP, Devin said “This was the extra push I needed to get out there and do it. I certainly think I will continue to do it [volunteer] in the future without receiving ‘credit’ for it. Even if it means taking vacation time.