Habitat For Humanity is an ecumenical Christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness by building houses together in partnership with families in need.Habitat invites people of all backgrounds to come together as volunteers to work on home building projects, and the organization has built more than 300,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1.5 million people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter.
In May, 2008, I helped with a volunteer crew from the LaFarge corporation to work on a duplex in Aurora, Colorado. We spent the better part of the day painting the interior and exterior of the home and installing soffits under the eaves of the garage.
We met the single mother who would be moving into the unit we were working on, and who was also helping that day with the project. In addition to a down payment and the monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.
