“Every day I when wake up in this house and I sit in the back warming up my car or I sit in the front or I’m shoveling a sidewalk, I just look up at it and sometimes still can’t believe that I own this. This is mine!”
National service has helped Vanessa Dingee flourish and set a lasting example for her young son.
In January 2017, a former corporate executive and 32-year Habitat volunteer from Bloomington, Indiana, hitched up a camper to his truck with a goal of volunteering with Habitat in all 50 states — in a year’s time.
Whirlpool has donated more than 175,000 ranges and refrigerators for new Habitat homes.
Master gardeners volunteer to landscape the yards of Habitat homes in Alabama.
Charlotte found the pieces of an old kitchen island at her local ReStore and transformed it into, as she calls it, her “kitchen savior.”
Habitat for Humanity is working with the Communitas Coalition to urge the United Nations to help make cities and homes around the world more affordable, safe and sustainable for all.
When a family partners with Habitat, every step of their journey is a step toward hope. Along the way, so many doors are opened.
Working with local Habitat organizations, new and returning Habitat AmeriCorps service members will help to build or improve homes alongside future and existing Habitat homeowners and volunteers. Members are expected to contribute more than 426,700 hours of service during the 2021-2022 service year.
While most of Culver City, California, was staying home and socially distancing as a result of COVID-19, Habitat for Humanity Greater Los Angeles supporters still wanted to find a way to welcome their newest neighbors—even if that meant doing so from at least 6 feet away.