Women Build Volunteers Start 3rd Habitat Project
Women Build volunteers work on a recent home construction project.
Volunteer(s) of the Month
Habitat for Humanity’s community service is very familiar. You have heard of the organization many times, through the media and from friends and family that may have been involved on one level or another. Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry, whose mission is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
People of all backgrounds, races, and religions are invited to build houses together in partnership with families in need. Habitat has built more than 300,000 houses worldwide, providing more than 1.5 million people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.
Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and the monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor—sweat equity—into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.
Arundel Habitat for Humanity has been in operation in Anne Arundel County for twenty-one years, and this summer delivered its 100th house. This coming April, Arundel Habitat’s third “Women Build” project will break ground. Women Build is an ambitious, dedicated, sensitive, and loving team of local women with a single purpose—affordable housing for a deserving family in Annapolis.
Debbie Gosselin of Watermark Cruises is Honorary Chair of Women Build, and Annapolis residents Pat Prouty and Linda Krone are Co-Chairs. The team is close to raising the $100,000 needed to build a new home on Clay Street in Annapolis’ Historic District, part of a 14-house Arundel Habitat development. More than 500 women have signed on to be a part of the construction project. With this enthusiastic team of Annapolis area women, they will soon break ground, raise the roof, hammer, paint, and build the home. Then, with great pride, Women Build volunteers will attend the dedication of the home they built and share in the joy of the homeowner and family.
Lorraine Williams, owner of the 100th Arundel Habitat House in Annapolis, who recently realized her dream of home ownership because of her hard work and the dedication of Habitat for Humanity volunteers understands the importance of volunteers for projects such as this.
Owning her own home “is like a dream come true,” she says. Now, Williams’ ministry is helping others connect with Arundel Habitat for Humanity and join her—and women through our region—in the revitalization of historic Clay Street.
Women Build is just one of many ways you can volunteer your own resources to Habitat for Humanity’s charitable work. The Red Hat crew is a volunteer group of leaders-in-training to oversee the construction of projects; volunteers with construction experience are welcome; tax-deductable gifts are well received and put towards materials and operation costs; and corporate sponsorships are available for interested companies.
To learn how you can become involved in the program and/or to make a secure donation online, log onto
Arundelhabitat.org. Please remember to mention Women Build in the “Donation Purpose” box.
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