Women Build - St. Paul's Women Can Help Build a Home!

All,

Dorchester Habitat for Humanity is sponsoring a Women Build - where only women will build an entire Habitat house here in Summerville. We would like to get many volunteers from St. Paul's to join us in this effort. Please prayerfully consider helping. Below is some basic information. I do not have specific dates yet... but will pass the information along when I get it!

Heather


WOMEN BUILD

Problem: More than 12 million children – one out of every six - live in poverty in the U.S.

Mission: To nurture, recruit and train women to build simple, decent, affordable homes.

Purpose: To involve more women in the construction of homes and, as they learn construction skills, they help move children out of poverty housing. The purpose of Women Build is not to exclude men but to include and empower women.

Partner Family:
Ms. Godbolt and her two daughters lived in a small, rundown apartment but had to move into her mother’s place because of drugs and loiterers in the apartment parking lot. Their next move will be into their 3-bedroom Habitat house after working alongside Women Build volunteers to complete 425 hours of “sweat equity” on their house and those of others. Like all Habitat homeowners, the Goldbolt family will buy their house through low payments on a no-profit, no interest loan.

Location
39 Challedon Drive in Summerville. Directions: Take Richardson under the
Berlin G. Myers Pkwy, turn left after Sawbranch Canal onto Challedon)

Cost of House
$60,000

Leadership
Habitat Team Leader – Star Callaway, Executive Director of Dorchester Habitat for Humanity
Community Team Leader – PJ Johnson, CEO of Summerville Medical Center
National Partner – Shannon Locklair, Lowe’s, who will hold three workshops for women on how to frame, hang sheetrock, install shingles, paint, etc.


Schedule
· Mid-March to June 30
· Workdays are Thursdays (8am-noon) and Saturdays (8am-3pm)
· Lowe’s Workshops – March 20 – framing, safety
March 28 – siding, shingles
April 18 – trim, drywall, paint
· Ground Breaking – late March
· Framing – early April
· Build everyday May 4-9 in honor of Mother’s Day – Sheetrock, paint, cabinets, trim
· Dedication – late June


Dorchester Habitat for Humanity, an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, is a nonprofit Christian organization dedicated to eliminating poverty housing. Habitat for Humanity brings together people with resources and people in need to build simple, decent, affordable houses. The houses are sold to those in need at no profit. Dorchester Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1993 and has built 28 houses in Summerville and 1 house in St. George.