Community Service: Habitat for Humanity

For a community service project, I am interested in volunteering for a group called Habitat for Humanity. The group works on building housing for people with low incomes across the world. The area that I am looking at volunteering for is in Oakland, California. I am currently working on contacting the organization and waiting for a response to see when I would be able to volunteer. If i end up being able to work for this organization, I am sure that this will be a great, if not eye opening experience for me as I don't see many of these problems in the community that I live in.