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So many come from Westchester to help daily….along with others who help regularly…to those who do thank you..Norma from Yonkers,Teresa from Yonkers,  Tom from Rye Brook, Tom from Bronxville, Pat from Rockland..all commited to being there to help those in the rockaways who have no help, no homes.! God bless you.

Each second is gift..

Yesterday one of our families Vernonica who had to lift her parents on their tables so water would not stream over them..lost her dad. He had a stroke in Sandy..he was put in the hospital…the other mom is now frail and losing hope..so many affected….so many elderly in cold…so many hurt..so many families hurting from being displaced…

There is hope as we will help rebuild Veronicas home…we have gutted it..she has three kids..we have a family who adopted them…and we have others who care to meet them and help them..pray for Veronica today and her family during this time….

And pray for habitat of Westchester…and in the world.

I have been with them for almost thirty years…a call from an original Habitater, Leroy Troyer, who works on the Carter work camp annually with Pres. Carter and Roslyn, brought me great joy yesterday…jim hows it going…we have so much to do…we had a great build in Haiti…and more…What a blessing he is.. thank you Leroy for your continued faithfulness to Habitat and more important to the Lords work here with habitat and the fuller center and in Indianapolis.

We build today with the Irish festival people..and also with the group from Xavier alumni..Tomorrow Saturday, we build with so many more as well. From all over..

Wont you help us continue to build…and bring hope and homes…as we go into our 25^th anniversary..may God bless you!

Ps your end of your tax donation has one day left to make it deductible..more important help save lives with your help.

 

 

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Did God give us snow after Christmas day..now it is snowing..no work at the rockaways or breezy…a group cancels…Christmas day we celebrated by having a service, by praying together in a church without walls, without insulation, without…any heat..

We are blessed to help one another..to pray..to get ready to work to help one another so many without heat…tonite in the rockaways many without heat..many hurting, we pray we act..

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Thanks to WFUV for their support of our great work with a radio interview. Also to Cisco Hughes who came out to work with us.

We have so much to be grateful for..our Habitat volunteers 2500 strong in fifteen days, our gutting of 600 homes.

Our work in Westchester Rockaways and support to Haiti.

Our many blessings, …including you..

Yesterday I met so many people..we want to thank Firtree Capital for their great support..with their hardworking team, their second time out.

We want to thank all those who come regularly, residents from Westchester Mamoroneck, Larchmont, Yonkers.

We want to thank the Alliance Churches and Lutheran churches..

We are so blessed in all we do…

With that in mind, we move ahead,

We welcome Tuckahoe High school volunteering as well today..

Herer to the best blessings of a Christmas week ever!!!!!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Short term disaster recovery, long term Green recovery.

The design team is on its way, making it every day to be able to help us build green..

A woman from the Rockaways association stated..do you know about SIP panels..

We have been using them since 1997 I tell her, she says they keep her warm even when her heater cant come on…what a blessing..

So we move ahead, we know that God is working..and the designs that will come will be unbelievable..that God has brought us here so far by faith..and action, and your support. God bless you

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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A meeting with the NYC Mayors office..volunteer organizations meet..sometimes we are worse in working together than others..

Part of our problems in the world..is we all don’t just work together….todays meeting was the beginning of creating working teams, more and more…to address

Sandy….in many ways we do this in our areas now…

We have the resources to get everone back into green rehabbed homes and new homes..if everyone, including you helps…

With out the volunteer agencies….there would be thousands more hurting, no question, thousands dieing I believe..

So heres to partnership, to Gods blessing all of our efforts…to working together…the winds of Sandy have blown us together..may be come out victorious..

For the families in need.. God bless

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Day 40..in sandy territory..the beat goes on as we beat Sandy down so others may be lifted up.

To that end one of my outlets has always to been to walk in manhattan at nite..after long meetings, days of work…

Last nite I was able to get there after having been in Breezy and the l ower rockaways..

We gutted homes in rockaways, in breezy, in Roxbury, then delivered paint and compound we got donated..and helped to

Reachout and get ready for a huge volunteer weekend.  We are blessed we believe to have Americorp coming back to us in the form of rebuilders..

And we have the ability to  rebuild many homes with donations  of sheetrock from Feldman Lumber and others..

To that end, we kick it into high gear..we move ahead..we need your help.

 

As I walked from 32st to 20^th to Houston, I thought of the streets from 32^nd to 20^th in the Rockaways..what a difference..

People are coming out of manhattan Christmas parties,on beautifully decorated streets, on areas that need support and help..

On areas that have sand and debris still on them..in the 20s many live in no better than shacks, small bungalows that became year round

Cottages, that now are filled with mold and they cant move out…the boardwalk,..( a piece I have small in my office and the burned out tree from Breezy)

Now is in disarray, while Union Square is abuzz…

The singers sing on stage at the garden..though we didn’t get a Garden party invite…and a singer on 1010 states, this is for all those who help..

Lots of guys on wall street aren’t helping, he says..”  that actually is not true..lots of guys on wall street are helping…and on 14^th street and everywhere in between…

So I walk and pray, and get ready for another day….streets, from 20^th to 220^th…in the Rockaways and in Manhattan..imagine if everyone had a right to a simple decent green home..

That we implemented the army corps of engineer studies when they were recommended, and that the jeddy was still up..and had been built…

Thoughts from the hood of sandy..jjk

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Friday a meeting with honor to the Clinton Global Initiative and Goldman Sachs…on Post Sandy reconstruction…

To help discuss what can be done in the future….how do we rebuild..what are some of the obstacles..opportunities…

Hard to think of opportunities now..especially when people are still without heat tonite…but there are opportunities.

How do we maintain our coastlines..what codes do we use…for building…what type of building products do we use..

Does real estate have a value to allow people a right to a simple decent home….how do we move ahead to maintain our dunes.

Do we change our ways we commute and energy we use….

All vital questions for the future..for the present…for the next generation which I call, the GENERATION OF SOLUTIONS..

But we can be part of that too…its time…

May God bless you in all you do…

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Its Sunday and we are off to kick Sandy again..thanks to Dudleys for helping us last nite in their efforts in New Rochelle… a benefit

Jackie and her friends come out..H2H (here to Help) from northern westchester came out..

Murphys came out..

Today we welcome Mt Vernon…residents who come out to cook with our friends at Battlion Church..

God is blessing much…our holiday is seeing another families home completed..

God bless, join us!!!!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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The mold grows..my throat sore, but we continue…26 days out of sandy, we are winning, we are ready to help three families move into their homes..ready to help them have a new life, ready to have them

Have a warm holiday..however still many don’t have their homes gutted, or pumped, many don’t have their lives moving ahead..many of them are on a standstill…lets help them move..

This holiday season, make a commitment to help one sandy family…to find out how, email relief@habitatwc.org...God bless you

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Its Friday..

Our holiday family dinner last nite at New Rochelle high school a success..thanks for all who helped with it…

So many kids now graduating college, grand kids being born..life is changed because of homeownership and Habitat.

 

The high school looks nice.not like Beach Channel high school did amonth ago..the kids hear about Sandy..and respond..how do we help..today this Friday many don’t even think of shopping, but think of their lights being turned on as gift, heat as a miracle and being back in their home..maybe as next years Christmas gift..wont you help..

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Every day about six workers come to visit us..at different times..im from fema, red cross, somewhere…wanted to get a census on what you are doing…I asked them..yesterday..what are you doing, where are you from…everyday people from out of new York come in for a five minute justification questionnaire..justification of what?

Anyway, praying for them and for me, because I don’t understand..

Along with that..we hit the ground running when no one was there.. a mom came in..crying..i was denied by Fema…she starts crying again….it is hard..

People in crisis go thru more stress sometimes trying to get help then actually getting any assistance..in all of the fields..this always bothered me..

Its not a job it’s a ministry, no matter what faith..helpers are supposed to alleviate pain, not create, alleviate tension, not cause more..

So heres hope I have no justifiers, just true helpers like our volunteers today…

God bless,

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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