Habitat for Humanity Kansas City- Volunteering

My dad and I had a great opportunity to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity today!  Our task was to frame a basement, since it was snowing outside.  We hammered nails, cut boards, cleaned floors, and moved insulation.  It is great to see the community helping fix houses that might other wise be neglected or torn down.  All of the volunteers were there because they wanted to help out, not because they were required to complete community service, which is nice to see.  See our hard days work below:

 

Habitat for Humanity is a great non profit organization, they help low income families become home owners. The potential owners have to take classes and work sweat equity at the ReStore, the Habitat office, or physical labor working on the Habitat houses.  Once the families fulfill the requirements and get a house, they are required to pay back a loan at %0 for the cost of materials purchased to complete their house.  The loan payment made by the new homeowner goes into a Habitat fund they use to build and fix other Habitat homes in the area.  Habitat also has three local Habitat ReStores.  You can donate leftover material from projects such as: old appliances, vanities, unused or left over paint, toilets, windows, wood, carpet and more.  Habitat resells these items to help fund their local projects.  Not only does it save these items from going to the landfill it also creates funds for their projects helping the community all year round.  I urge all of you to get out there and volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.  You might learn some new skills and techniques you can use on your own home.  Check out their site to get started: http://habitatkc.org/