No place like home
After raising her own kids, Carrie has signed on once again for days filled with homework, basketball games, music lessons — and she’ll get to do it all in her own home thanks to a repair program for older homeowners.
After raising her own kids, Carrie has signed on once again for days filled with homework, basketball games, music lessons — and she’ll get to do it all in her own home thanks to a repair program for older homeowners.
Through our Aging in Place program, Habitat aims to help older adults make the upgrades and repairs necessary to ensure their homes are accessible and safe to continue living in as they age. These stories exemplify our work to provide these accessible accommodations across the U.S.
Since 2005, Thrivent – a Fortune 500 financial services company that puts generosity at the heart of saving and investing – and its clients have contributed over $283 million and more than 6.4 million volunteer hours to Habitat for Humanity to help build, rehab or repair homes in the U.S. and across the globe.
Two years after hurricanes Irma and Maria struck, Habitat is making progress in communities throughout Puerto Rico and advocating for changes that will build resilience and reduce delays in recovery when disaster strikes again.
It had been a year since Ernie, an outgoing 87-year-old U.S. Army veteran, had been outside on his own. After months of this kind of physical isolation, and months of encouragement from his social worker, Ernie applied for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell’s Critical Home Repair Program.
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Creating safe, durable and culturally responsive homes for ethnic minority households in northern Vietnam.
International housing nonprofit aids communities impacted by Harvey and Irma.