Events Listing

NEW ORLEANS, La. – New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity will have 198 homes under construction or completed and will give tours of their developments in Musicians’ Village and the Upper Ninth Ward. For more information, visit www.habitat-nola.org.

HAMMOND, La. – Ginger Ford Habitat for Humanity will break ground on a home with a hurricane-displaced family on Wednesday, Aug. 29. Two other homes also will be under construction. For further information contact Leigh Ann Lanaux at 985-542-6866 or Blair Edwards at 985-542-6866 or 985-517-0910.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Hattiesburg Area Habitat for Humanity will host the 10th NBA-sponsored build with players raising walls on Wednesday, Aug. 22.

LAKE CHARLES, La. – On Saturday, Aug. 18, Habitat for Humanity Calcasieu Area will participate in the Southwest Louisiana Evacuee Summit, which will provide information on housing options to hurricane-displaced individuals. The Summit will take place in a mobile home park still filled with FEMA trailers. In late September, two years after the eye of Hurricane Rita passed over the area, Calcasieu Habitat will be working on five homes with hurricane-displaced families. Among them will be the affiliate’s first Women Build project and the first Habitat home in Cameron. Hurricane Rita did not leave a single structure standing in this small town. To comply with new building codes, Habitat will build the house on a 13-foot-poured concrete pier. For further information contact Judy Tinker at 337-497-0129.

BEAUMONT, Texas – At the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Rita, Habitat for Humanity of Jefferson County will have five homes under construction with hurricane-displaced families. On Saturday, Sept. 8, Habitat of Jefferson County will begin an Apostles Build, which will bring together 12 churches to build a home in 12 weeks. Two houses in Sabine Pass will be built 13 feet off the ground to avoid future flooding, a first for the Beaumont affiliate. The affiliate also will be rebuilding two houses on land where families lost their homes—one in Port Arthur and one in Beaumont. For further information contact Uliana Trylowsky at 409-832-5853.

MERIDIAN, Miss. – On Sunday, Aug. 26, Lauderdale County Habitat for Humanity will dedicate Habitat homes with Stanley and Shavonka White, who lost their New Orleans home, and with Alaine Preston who lost her home in Picayune, Miss. The dedication and a celebratory watermelon cutting will take place at 2 p.m. at 2324 45th Ave. For additional information contact Fonda Rush at 601-485-4992.

MOBILE, Ala. – Habitat for Humanity in Mobile County will commemorate the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, Aug. 29, by dedicating three homes in their Fort Lake Trace neighborhood. The dedication will take place at 3 p.m. at 6700 Jaimee Circle East in Grand Bay. For additional information contact Myra Evans at 251-476-7171.

SLIDELL, La. – East St. Tammany Habitat for Humanity is nearing completion on 19 houses in partnership with hurricane-displaced families. For further information contact Kimberley Fraser at 985-639-0656.

THIBODAUX, La. – Bayou Area Habitat for Humanity will have 20 homes under construction on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and will dedicate their 100th house on Thursday, Sept. 13, at 291 Bon Jovi Blvd. in Gray. Founded in 1996, the affiliate had built 28 homes in the years leading up to Hurricane Katrina. For further information contact Lisa Smith at 985-447-6999 Ext. 227.

COVINGTON, La. - St. Tammany West Habitat for Humanity will have completed 24 modular homes and new homeowner families are expected to be moving in by the end of the month. Habitat also has a new development under construction called, Faith Village, which includes six homes funded by the faith communities. For more information, visit www.habitatstw.org.