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Habitat For Humanity~A Wonderful Way to Help Others!

By Dorene Slavitz

Real Estate Agent with Residential & Commercial Real Estate 018255570

May 26, 2009 10:58 AM

Get Involved with Habitat for Humanity

What is Habitat?

Habitat is a nonprofit, Christian Housing Ministry which was developed to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a mater of conscience and action.

2. Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.

Habitat with their volunteers have built over 300,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1.5 million people in 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.

How does it work?

Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses alongside our homeowner (partner) families.

Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor (sweat equity) into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.

Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans.

The homeowners' monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses

For more information Call Habitat for Humanity at 1 (800) 422-4828.

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