University of Houston-Downtown got seven new trees this week thanks to Dreissen Fellow La’Vonte Holt. This 40 acre urban university, a part of the University of Houston system, boasts a student population of over 15,000 students. In what was thought to be a relatively easy thing to get approved turned into a battle of perseverance but La’Vonte prevailed despite the City of Houston bureaucracy’s best attempts to have nothing done by not returning calls for months or sending CFACT personnel on wild goose hunts to find the right person to approve an attempt to donate some trees to the city. This [...]

Students from the University of Houston, the third largest university in the state of Texas with 47,000 students, lead by CFACT Driessen Fellow Gadai Bulgac, set out to get at least a portion of their city looking a little better.  Tired of their local city council and mayor being unresponsive to the problem of rampant littering in the area these students, in a traditional conservative fashion, took it upon themselves to do something about it. Gadai said about the two hour event that spanned from the UH Student Union to MacGregor Park, “we want to make a positive impact on the [...]

In the village of Shekta Siraswadi in India, people would walk long distances to get clean drinking water. In light of this, CFACT partnered with Pastor Ramesh Ghodke to fund the building of a well for clean water in the village itself.