Building homes. Building hope. JUNE 2012
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HFH Kelowna is a community-based, non-profit, faith-based organization working for a world where everyone has a safe and decent place to live. Now building on our 20th year in the Central Okanagan.
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PAY IT FORWARD CAMPAIGN UPDATE
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Sunshine and balloons at
The Ponds in the Mission
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Community Support
We also want to thank the companies who have come forward to help -- Shorestone Homes hosted a block party at their beautiful development called The Ponds in the Mission, and Paradigm Mortgage is once again hosting a putting contest for us. A special thanks to Astral Media for all their support for this campaign.
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ELK ROAD PROJECT CELEBRATION
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 Donors & volunteers thanked |
FIVE MEN AND A BABY
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 Newest team member Recently, a team of Habitat volunteers were helping a homeowner with some basic repairs. She could not afford to hire anyone and to complicate matters, she was expecting a baby in a few weeks. While our team members were hard at work, the homeowner felt the unmistakable signs that the baby was on its way -- two weeks earlier than expected! If this was a Hollywood movie, we'd tell you that our volunteers began to boil water and fetch towels. [read more] |
| HFH Kelowna: A Retrospective | |
 Part Three Through the mid-90's, Habitat volunteers worked hard to raise money for another build project. They raffled a playhouse, held walk-a-thons and bike-a-thons and fundraising dinners. Even though they needed money for local projects, the board recognized that giving a tithe to help Habitat's work overseas is an integral part of the Habitat program, and the Kelowna affiliate sent monies to the affiliate in Jamaica, where "a modest brick house" cost only one-tenth of the cost of a Canadian home.  | |
Local volunteers built homes for
four more families in 1996.
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Having built three single family homes since 1992, the affiliate was able by 1996 to commit to their most ambitious building project to date, a fourplex in Rutland. The fourplex design "makes better use of scarce urban land... the homes are grouped around a central courtyard which acts both as a symbolic focus and entry for the development... fostering a sense of community." [read more] |
