Hart Habitat for Humanity Seeking Women Volunteers
Hart County’s Habitat for Humanity is looking for women to volunteer on a special project coming up on May 3.
It’s part of Habitat International’s Women Build Week. Local coordinator Darlene Nixon says Hart Habitat is one of more than 300 Habitat affiliates nationwide that will be hosting a Women Build project that week.
“It’s a partnership with Lowe’s Home Improvement stores and they help fund projects throughout the nation for local affiliates to work on a project that will help a local family,” Nixon said. “It can either be a new construction or a rehab project.”
This year, Nixon said in conjunction with Lowe’s in Anderson, Hart Habitat has decided to do a home repair project for a local mother who needs work done on her existing home.
“The Women Build Week is that week up to Mother’s Day,” she said. “On Saturday, May 3, women who volunteer will come out to the family’s home. We’ll be doing some minor repairs and plumbing, that type thing.”
Nixon said Lowe’s is supplying the materials and will also be doing a painting clinic at the job site.
The woman Hart Habitat is helping does not live in a Habitat home, Nixon said, but she said Habitat has a program where they just help people with home repairs who couldn’t afford it otherwise.
If you can’t make it to the job site on May 3rd, Nixon said there is another way to get involved.
“We are also looking for women to sponsor the volunteers who come out and help,” Nixon explained. “What we will do is ask those are planning to participate to contact their family, friends, and coworkers and get dollar sponsorships in honor of, or in memory of, their mother.”
Nixon said after the event, Hart Habitat will send out Mother’s Day cards to all of the honorees.
For more information on how you can get involved with the Hart Habitat Women Build project, you can contact Nixon at 706-436-0741 or email: [email protected].