Dedication of HfH Calaveras house #9

ABOUT HABITAT CALAVERAS

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. Habitat works in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need, Habitat's partner families, at no profit and with no interest charged. Partner families invest hundreds of hours of their own labor -- sweat equity -- into building their homes and the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used to build more houses.

While President Jimmy Carter is our most famous volunteer, HfHI was founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife Linda, and headquartered in Americus, Ga, HFHI's work in the United States is accomplished by affiliates. Habitat affiliates are independent, nonprofit [501(c) (3)] organizations that are organized by local citizens and operate with local boards and local volunteers. There are more 1,300 U.S. affiliates spread among all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers provide most of the labor, and faithful individual and corporate donors provide the money and materials to build Habitat houses.

Habitat's mission is to eliminate poverty housing from the earth. Habitat has taken its vision of a world with no more shacks to 90 nations. Since 1976, HFHI has completed nearly 350,000 simple, decent, affordable houses for more than 1,750,000 people around the globe. 

ABOUT HABITAT INTERNATIONAL

DID YOU KNOW…

Habitat for Humanity is ranked as the sixth largest
homebuilder in the United States with 6,032 closings in 2010, according to Builder magazine’s annual survey. This is the second consecutive year Habitat has ranked in the top 10 on the list.

HfH Calaveras became an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International in 1994. Since then, we have partnered with volunteers and Habitat families to:

· construct at least 5 new homes in San Andreas

· entirely rehabilitate a 100-year old house in San Andreas

· build a bathroom addition for a paraplegic individual

· do repairs on several homes throughout Calaveras

· build & ship a ‘House-in-a-Box’ to the Gulf Coast to help
       in the Katrina disaster

· Complete our 9th house in Rancho Calaveras in 2009

· In 2010 remodel a ‘1950’s era house in San Andreas

· Complete house number 11 in West Point, CA in July, 2011

· Raise funds to build another Habitat Calaveras home in West Point, CA in 2012!