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Next week a non-profit agency will open a battered women and children shelter. For three months six volunteers, five of which were female, and one engineer worked independent of the agency to build this house. The $34,000 needed to complete the project was raised in the business community. The male engineer, who led the project, received $5,000 for his involvement; the other workers were unpaid volunteers.

Very great work, Katie. Aren't there seven volunteers, or am I missing something? Just a few suggestions for revisions:

Next week a non-profit agency will open a battered women and children shelter. For three months, seven volunteers, five of whom were female, and one of whom was the engineer worked independently of this agency to build the house. The $34,000 needed to complete the project was raised in the business community. The male engineer, who led the project, received $5,000 for his involvement; the other workers were unpaid volunteers.

Bethany- it's not really clear how many volunteers there were. I took it to mean that there were 7 people working on the project total, 6 volunteers and one the engineer. Although now that I reread them it does say that "the workers (of which it early stated there were 7) volunteered their services". I've put the original sentences below so we can track how far we've come in our edits. Seven people worked on the project. Their purpose was to build a house. The house was to be used for a shelter. The shelter was to be available for use by battered women and children. The leader of the project was a construction engineer. Five of the people involved in the building project were women. The engineer was a man. The project lasted three months and cost $34,000. The money to fund the project was raised in the business community. The workers were volunteering their services. The engineer was paid $5000. The shelter would be operated by a non-profit agency. The agency was not involved with the building of the house. The shelter will begin operation next week.

ellen: A house to be constructed by volunteers, funded by the business community, and operated by a non-profit agency, will begin operation next week as a shelter for battered women and children, following the completion of a building project lasting three months and costing $34,000. The non-profit agency operating the shelter was not involved in the actual building project, led by a male construction engineer, who earned $5000 for this project, and worked with one man and five women.

No, I see what you're saying. I don't think the engineer can be a volunteer, since he is paid. I stand corrected.