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The song goes…”Baby its cold outside…”  it certainly is..for sure.

We are working hard to help families into energy efficient homes.. but once in, familes also need to learn about keeping their heating units clean,  not to overuse them, to save electricity, to pull out plugs and more.

 

It is vital for us to help save energy…we are prepaing for our biggest earthweek yet..and announced this as our Greenest year in history.  Why not….lets get solar on our roofs, lets save energy, lets use extra blankets. Lets prepare to get more bike racks into our streets. ZI ti s vital.

So come go green intentionally…use less plastic, move ahead…

Its time.

Ps this weekend is our Superbowl Buildathon..amazng! join us in our work..from #Sandy Relief, to #superbowl buildathon..we need you!

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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Dr Martin Luther King stated..Our goal is ot create a beloved community and th is will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.” 

What changes happen..in our lives…what service do we do….this week all week, we have our 15^th Annual Martin Luther King buildathon….we culminate at the end of the week

With volunteers from Temple Israel, Shiloh Baptist, Holy Family, Iona, Relig and more…..plus we have had twenty groups from last Sat…to this week coming…

It is the pinnacle of the kickoff of our year……We have a dream..that all can live in a simple decent home…..the mission continues…

 

The late Millard Fuller was eulogized in Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta….when I went for the service, presidents, paupers, people from all walks attended.  Habitat started

In Koiononia farms in Americus, then to Zaire, formerly the Congo, then back to Ga. Then like wildfire has spread.  Andrew Young former mayor and ambassador stated Jim,

It was so radical for black and white people to live together….we were told not to go there as kids..   is it still radical…are there communities you know still totally segregated…

For us ownership is the wealth builder, the bank, the home that changes histories of poverty, generations of them.  Kids get a new point of reference, education goes up, crime goes down.

It all works together for the good. For the great!

 

We had Hispanic, Italian, African American, Caucasian, Asian, all walks of life working together today.  A great blessing.

Dream with me…can you design simple decent homes and or coops or condos in your community…can you be the Dream Maker with Habitat of Westchester. 

Also our work in Sandy for families just to get back in, continued with  Fordham Alumni volunteering….Thank  you!

The Mission continues, the Holy Spirit blesses us, we can do this! Join us. 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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We are so blessed to have so many that love us..who help us..so we can love others with homes, with rebuilding and more.

I write at 7am in the morning with our Sandy relief volunteers, Norma and Tom.  Tonite we all get honored by Greybeards in the Rockaways. At a dinner for 400.  We stop and pause and recommit to rebuild.  We have to.  So many still not in their homes.

As we embark on our next 25 years we think of so much, our first home in Larchmont, the floods in Mamoroneck and our rehabbgin 250 homes, our award design house there,the beautiful home in Portchester, two homes in Bedford, a rehab in Pound ridge, a rehab in Rye,  the Bob  Vila House built in Yonkers, the six homes first built and white plains, then six other projects there, our 40 homes in Yonkers and many rehabs there, our 10 projects in Ossining, many projects and more than 800 homes worked on in the Rockaways from Hurricane Sandy.

 

We have just begun… Affordable home ownership is the most important effort for us to build, and driver of economics for the state of NY and our country. Also my proposal for a National Disaster University still stands, even the Vice President and Governor took the idea and announced it a year after I brought it to the Moreland commission, a year ago yesterday, at Suny Purchase (documented on News 12).

 

Plus we are naming this the Greenest Year in History. Today at our headquarters our third in a series on Solar panels and going green. We will be off the grid on our headquarters sooner than later..stay tuned.

25 more years, we need your support. No question, we are teaching thousands to build and pushing now more than ever…for everyone a simple decent home to live in! 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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Blessings to all we do.

We have so much..so many people who need help..someone says, I just got back from Florida, or I just came back from am onth..awesome…its hard when you seepeople die in Mt Vernon, when you  people die in fires..when you see people without a life…because they live din substandard housing..When you see Times square, yet we cant build decent homes..

What are we doing here..but there is hope..the Ruah..the Holy Spirit of the toarh, Koran and bible talks to us to work together to love one another to help heal and rebuild..

That’s our mission..So today we have hope..maybe no fancy vacation, but every time we see a smile that we helped someone, that we are close to moving another family in..that we saved energy for someone or taught someone to build…then our hope is moving with a hammer of love..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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We keep on keeping.

Each day is gift, we continue.. we work we move we

Help to fight for rights of people to live in homes, with building them.  This Monday I am so excited over our Habitat for Veterans initiatives…Mike and Nikki are on the move, ready to help build their own home,  they have been and we will dedicate it in April..two Vets families will move in.

We also have an excellent partnership with the American legion…having rehabbed one in New Rochelle, we continue…strong, to hire vets, rehab legions, help repair senior vets home and more..

Last our work on Battle Hill in Yonkers..to build Vets homes is in partnership with the city, with our sponsors like Andersen Windows, Levitt Furst, and more..amazing..

In that vain we continue…strong Habitat veterans strong! Oohrah..with your help…

 

And Today we prepare for our Martin Luther King buildathon..we have done it for years..before anyone, building the American Dream for families in need……changing neighborhoods, creating marching bands and more…ownership would change the face of neighborhoods..neighborhoods would stop killings and crime and murders..and drugs…ive seen, ive lived it..its time to make a large model shift away from rentals to ownership..stay tuned..WE HAVE A DREAM ..that all can live in a simple decent home…the Dream continues..with your help and sponsorship..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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