Carpentry Shop

Description
The carpentry shop is located in a converted barn in Beius and is one of the finest carpentry facilities in the region. The youth work with professional carpentry equipment and learn such skills as furniture and cabinet making, handling woodcutting equipment, and designing and building house frames, wood flooring, windows, doors, and picture frames. After completing the program, the youngsters are prepared to work in furniture factories and woodworking/carpentry shops.

The carpentry shop receives orders from Habitat for Humanity for doors and window frames, to be used in the Habitat houses. In addition, there are several people who have ordered furniture, beds, windows, doors and office shelves from the Good Samaritan carpentry shop.

Goals
Good Samaritan hopes that the carpentry shop will expand and evolve into a small business that will generate income for Good Samaritan in order to help additional orphans. In addition, we would like to hire two or three orphans in full-time, permanent positions at the carpentry shop in order to assist with training and supervising orphans who are in the Good Samaritan program. We also plan to develop more extensive training for seven to 10 youngsters to better prepare them for jobs in the carpentry industry.