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2016 Habitat Home Dedications!
Serving Families in Multiple Ways
As we celebrate our 10~20~30 milestones this year, (10 years ReStore in Camrose, 20 Habitat in Camrose, building our 29th & 30th homes) we also celebrate the ways we serve families in the community.
1. Affordable Home Ownership
We all want strength, stability and self-reliance for our families. Habitat’s Affordable Home Ownership program empowers families to take care of themselves and build their own brighter futures by owning their own home.
Having a safe and secure place to live benefits everyone in the family and community.
Moving into a Habitat home can happen in two ways:
Moving in to a new home – This is normally what people think about when they think ‘Habitat.’ Along with numerous volunteers and contractors, families help directly in the construction of their home. Upon completion, a home dedication ceremony is held and the keys to the home are passed on to the family.
Christina and son Kaden in their new home.
In its 20 years in the community, Habitat Camrose has served 30 families the keys to new Habitat homes. An average of 2 families per year.
Moving in to a refurbished home – The purpose behind the Habitat program is to be able to give a family a hand up through home ownership, so that they can build equity in their homes and move on to another home and a traditional mortgage. When families are able to accomplish this, the Habitat homes are refurbished and serve a new Habitat partner family, who then sign a mortgage with Habitat Camrose.
2. International Work ~ Home for a Home – Habitat for Humanity has always supported international work. In 2015 Habitat Canada officially launched the Home for Home model of tithing in Canada. The goal is to generate $2500 for every home built locally to support the construction of a home internationally. You can read about the results of our international work in the 2015 Impact Report included in this newsletter.
Habitat Camrose has tithed for 30 homes internationally over our 20 years in Camrose.
Camrosian, Barry Stotts, participates in a Habitat Global Village trip to Guatemala.
In 2016 we celebrate with the community the milestones that Habitat has made in Camrose. We celebrate you, the volunteers, donors, contractors, and those that attend our fundraising events. All of you make Habitat possible in Camrose. And most of all, we celebrate with you the difference we have been able to make in the lives of families in our community.
We thank you for your ongoing support.
Cody McCarroll
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity Camrose
2016 Ground Breaking. Everyone Welcome!
Building Futures: The Garcia Family – 2015 Partner Family
Jomer and Angel in their new home with their two sons, Noah and David.
Partnering with Habitat for Humanity has given us the opportunity to have confidence in owning a home without having to worry about paying a mortgage beyond our financial capabilities.
Jomer and Angel join the Bethany Group for landscaping at the build site.
We have been given the privilege of spending our time where it matters most, raising our family. It encourages us to look forward to giving our kids a better future by providing a safe and comfortable haven where they can grow up.
Jomer and Angel receive the key to their Habitat home from Camrose Mayor, Norm Mayer.
Working hand in hand with all the staff and volunteers has given us the chance to grow in moral, social, intellectual and emotional aspects of our life and that is something that we aim to pass on to our kids. We thank God for everything, that together, hand in hand, we can build homes, raise hope and make a significant difference in hardworking family’s lives.
By supporting the ReStore, YOU help to BUILD HOMES!
Here in Camrose and throughout Canada, Habitat ReStores strive to help build safe, secure and affordable homes for families in need. The Camrose ReStore began in an unheated warehouse in 2004 and the current building was constructed in 2006, both by volunteers and generous community individuals and business partners.
How does ReStore translate into homes for hardworking families?
ReStores are retail stores that are open to the public. Every product we sell is donated. These donations range from building materials, furniture, appliances, and other home products. These items are sold to generate funds to support Habitat for Humanity building programs.
Each and every item in the ReStore is a donation from individuals, schools, and local small businesses, as well as from major donors like Home Depot and All Weather Windows. Local retailers often have high quality items that can no longer be sold in store. Individuals are frequently upgrading, renovating, and changing items in their homes. Contractors are always constructing and deconstructing and are left with very usable leftover materials.
Each and every item in the ReStore is a donation. Most from individuals like you.
Major corporate donors also help ReStore raise money to build homes.
The profits generated by selling these items are put into a fund used to finance local Habitat for Humanity builds. Donating to ReStore not only substantially reduces waste going to the landfill, it helps to build homes for hardworking families in need in our community!
How your donations help to build homes.
What about operating costs?
Charities, like any other organization, incur administrative fees to keep them running. So besides raising money to fund local builds, revenue from items you donate to the Camrose ReStore covers 100% of Habitat Camrose’s administration costs. As a result, 100% of every dollar raised by Habitat Camrose through other means, such as individual and corporate giving, can go directly towards our local builds and provide more families in Camrose with safe, decent and affordable housing.
What does this mean for you and your community?
The Habitat Camrose ReStore continues to grow because of tremendous support from donors, customers, and volunteers. It continues to play a huge part in the ability for Habitat Camrose to keep on building homes and changing the lives of hardworking families from year to year.
2015 partner family Azeneth and Jomer (Noah) Garcia with Habitat Board President Mark Schneider.
What can you do?
Each time you donate, make a purchase, or volunteer, you are opening the door to a brighter future for a hardworking family.
To SHOP ReStore come visit us at 5007 – 46 St Camrose, Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00am – 6:00pm.
To DONATE bring your items to the ReStore or call us for pickup 780.672.4484.
To VOLUNTEER call us at 780.672.4484 or stop by the store.
To make a monetary donation follow the link or call 780.679.0369.
Safe and secure homes for children benefit everyone in the community.
Highlights From Our First Womens Build
In the days leading up to Mother’s Day, local women volunteers from Camrose and surrounding areas were using paintbrushes on a Habitat for Humanity Camrose painting site to bring awareness to the issue of women and children poverty in Alberta.This year, with much laughter and camaraderie, local women contributed to the 25th and 26th Habitat homes in Camrose by working together painting the doors, trim and baseboards for both homes.Women Build is about empowerment, encouragement, togetherness and inspiring one another, celebrating the strengths and contributions of women in Camrose. Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build program recruits, educates and encourages women to come together to build homes, which in turn help families break the cycle of poverty and create a stronger local community.
The Mother’s Day timeframe is significant as families with children make up a staggering number of those in need of adequate housing. Although we live in one of the wealthiest provinces in Canada, 11.3% of children in Alberta live in poverty (73,000). Women in general and single mothers in particular are especially vulnerable to poverty and it is estimated that poverty costs Alberta $7.1 – $9.5 billion every year.
We profiled many of our wonderful volunteers on our Facebook page leading up to the event. We’ve linked to the posts here so you can learn more about why they’ve chosen to become Hope Builders with us. If you’re on Facebook, be sure to Like us to get the latest updates from our community of dedicated volunteers.
Breaking New Ground – Why We Celebrate
It is that time of year again. The birds are singing, the snow is melting and Habitat for Humanity’s is getting ready for the spring building season with a groundbreaking ceremony!
For Habitat, the ground breaking is an opportunity to get excited, celebrate, give thanks, and reflect on what having a place to call home means to a family. We are excited that we are fortunate enough to be able to build another home in this community. We celebrate our ability to come together as a community to provide better futures for our members. We give thanks to the volunteers and community partners (from those that shop at the ReStore to major business partners) that help to make all of this possible. And we hear from the families. By partnering with Habitat for their home, families receive stability, safety, and a chance for a better future. Habitat homes symbolize opportunities that they did not have before.
A community comes together to build a home
2014 Habitat Building Site
The children of the Carroll family overlook the building site.
Mackenzie and Angela Carroll meet Mayor Norm Mayer
2014 Partner Family – the Carroll family
2014 Partner Family Ken Dzus and Courtney Moore.
Habitat for Humanity Camrose: BUILDING HOMES. BUILDING HOPE
With Christmas and New Years behind us now, we can look back and reflect on the all the wonderful memories we were able to create with our families. Going to relatives’ houses for dinner and games and laughter are easily the best parts about the holiday season. We cherish these memories all year, and look forward to doing it again next year. Unfortunately, not all families are able to share in these memories and laughter because they literally cannot afford to.
There are many truly upsetting numbers when discussing the need for affordable and sustainable housing in Canada. This year alone, 1.5 million Canadian families are in need for safe, decent, affordable housing. Of this number about 750 000 are children. Continue reading
Help: The Four Letter Word That’s Hard to Say
Think of the last time someone helped you. Maybe you were working on a project, or were short $5 for lunch, or even just feeling blue. Did you ask for his or her help, or were you too proud or ashamed to say anything? When it comes to something as personal as our finances, it’s difficult and rare to ask for help. When it involves our household, it’s even harder to ask for money to manage it. Habitat for Humanity Camrose is part of one organization that operates on the principle that people need a hand up, not a hand out. HFHC helps people climb the ladder to home ownership.
The organization works to identify a family’s housing needs, fulfill them, and record both the short- and long-term impact. Consider the following questions:
A Camrose family moving into their new home.
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Do you spend a third or more of your income on rent?
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Is your home crowded or poorly maintained?
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Have you lived in Camrose for over a year?
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Are you willing to put in the hours it takes to build a house?
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Do you have good credit?
(If you answered yes to even some of these five questions, consider filling out an application: http://habitatcamrose.com/own-a-home.)
Building and owning a Habitat home helps ensure that your family will grow and succeed, both socially and economically. Long-term effects of owning your home ripple within a family, across a community, and through society. The community not only gains a physical dwelling when Habitat is at work, but frees the family from dependence on local services (1). Society gains individuals of many ages who value hard work and have the confidence to pursue change. Children in financially and emotionally stable Habitat homes have been found to be healthier, complete studies after high school, and enjoy successful careers (2). We often hear how education breaks the cycle of poverty, and by equipping Habitat families with the right tools, their children may not face the same difficulties when they become adults.
Habitat for Humanity is unique in its approach to home ownership. To find out more, visit www.habitatcamrose.com, find us on Twitter, or visit our Facebook page.
By Kelly Margaret Milne
Kelly is a student at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta in Camrose.
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