The mission of Habitat is to eliminate substandard housing in the world by working in partnership with people in need to build simple, decent, affordable housing. The houses are then sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest charged.
Volunteer
Work Day- Monday July 26 - Saturday July 30
Volunteers must be at least 16 years of age. Would you like to know more about work days? Email your question to workday@lrhabitat.org
Habitat succeeds at building hope in tough times
Habitat taps into a community's human capital, those who are to be admired strictly for their humanitarian outreach. Some volunteers contribute valuable expertise; others perform more mundane, time-consuming and back-bending chores. Regardless of the level of skill, all of the volunteers share the same goodness of heart. Read the article printed in the July 6, 2010 edition of the Citizen of Laconia.
Woman has devoted life to caring for disabled daughter
On May 11, 2010, The Citizen of Laconia ran an article about Heather Jones and Karla Downard. Heather and Karla both walked in our recent walk-a-thon: The two raised $533 for Lakes Region Habitat for Humanity! Read the article here.
Habitat, local students join hands on project
With help from more than 50 volunteers, including students from
the building trades program at Huot Technical Center, Lakes Region
Habitat for Humanity is well on the way to transforming a house on
Gilford Avenue house into a home for a deserving local family. Read
what John Koziol of The Citizen of Laconia wrote. The whole story
can be found here at Citzen.com.
The
18th
Annual Lakes Region Habitat for Humanity Walk-A-Thon
On Saturday May 1, 2010 Lakes Region Habitat for Humanity held their annual fund-rasier to help eliminate poverty housing and build adequate housing for those who need it. Proceeds from this fund-raiser will help put a roof over the head of a child in need and lend a helping hand to build simple, decent and affordable Habitat homes for families in need in the Lakes Region. As in the past the start and finish of our 5 mile walk-a-thon was at the First United Methodist Church, Route 11A in Gilford. Click here for more information.
January 21, 2010
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM JONATHAN RECKFORD:
The situation in Haiti truly overwhelms the senses. Your eyes have a difficult time processing the destruction they are seeing. Your ears hear the clamor of tens of thousands of displaced people Haiti living on the streets or in makeshift tent cities like the one at right. The smell of decay can’t be
avoided.
You don’t want to eat when you know so
many people are begging for any scrap of food. And touch… reaching out
to an injured person, picking up a piece of debris—everything is a
reminder of the staggering toll exacted by the quake on people,
structures and institutions.My visit to Port-au-Prince this week left no doubt that Habitat for Humanity’s expertise will be needed there for many years to come as the nation struggles to rebuild. We will have a role in the short term and the long. From helping with cleanup starting now, to establishing training and resource centers, to core house construction, we will (we must!) have a substantial on-the-ground presence helping Haitian families help themselves. One of the highlights of my visit was getting to meet the Habitat Haiti staff at their newly leased office. Despite many of their own homes being destroyed, despite the fact that many lost close relatives in the quake, they are ready to roll up their sleeves and go to work. I know many of you also are working hard to raise funds for the response. Please know that every bit you can do to help will be put to good use. I often reflect on a quote from St. Teresa of Avila; the words seem particularly compelling as I recall my feelings this week on the streets of Port-au-Prince:
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours, yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion is to look out to the earth, yours are the feet by which He is to go about doing good and yours are the hands by which He is to bless us now.
My prayer is that each of us will find conviction in those words to work ever more diligently in building houses and hope wherever they are needed—in Haiti, certainly, but in local communities everywhere that have families desperate for decent, affordable places to live.
—In grateful partnership,
Jonathan
LINKS TO MORE INFORMATION:
Habitat information and resources on activities surrounding its Haiti response are accumulating quickly. Here are some links we think you will find interesting or useful:
Banners that
can be added to blogs or Web sites
Updated fact sheet on Habitat’s planned response
Ricky Martin’s work with Habitat
(Special thanks to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles and Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity for coordinating Ricky Martin’s work with Habitat, as well as that of other celebrities involved with Habitat’s Haiti response. The affiliate also is soliciting funds for the work in Haiti. You can access the affiliate’s website here.
HFHI’s online donation page
Updated fact sheet on Habitat’s planned response
Ricky Martin’s work with Habitat
(Special thanks to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles and Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity for coordinating Ricky Martin’s work with Habitat, as well as that of other celebrities involved with Habitat’s Haiti response. The affiliate also is soliciting funds for the work in Haiti. You can access the affiliate’s website here.
HFHI’s online donation page
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