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God works…yesterday I talked to Pablo, a great family member. Sunday I a family member from Harlem come visit our Restore…

With that in mind, we move ahead..we work we live we breathe,

This past summer I helped 100 burned out family members in Peekskill… a fire..

We were there with furniture, with help, the Mayor opened a warehouse and we were able to help so many.

Pablo worked with me in helping the families..

In the meantime, later in the fall, we kept helping working with familes together, helping building assisting,

Just this week we helped another mom who who was being evicted with our eviction program.

With that in mind, I had referred him to the Putnam Habitat home that is being built….apply lets hope and pray..

After going through the process Pablo and his family are going to be the Habitat homeowners in Lake Peekskill..

The threads of connection move on together, with that in mind, Gods thread of life is touching you,, your stories of sewing your lifequilt together, to help others, is unraveling today off the spool…the Habitat thread is stronger than ever this Holy Season, we are blessed…by you, please donate to our vital cause  http://www.habitatwc.org

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waBack blogging this day, what better dayto do it than on Valentines Day 2016.  What a week.

Ash Wednesday began with my ashes from a fire on 77 Centre street in NewRochelle. It light of our goals here at our headquarters, Restore and disaster center, the local police and Red cross asked me to help. I am honored to work with police and red cross workers and firefighters.  Within 7minutes our headquarters easily was made open, socks and hot coffee, coats and food were given.

We h ope to put a kitchen and showers here too, we are always ready to help.  Join us, help sponsor this if you can!

L:ike the 1800 home swe touched with volunteers in the Rockaways and Breezy, like the Fountainplace fire in NewRochelle helping 50 families, like the Nodine hill fire where 6 died and we helped with 300 families…at Good Shepherd, like the Pelham ave fire victims in New Rochelle, like the 200 families in  the floods of Mamoroneck we re there!

 

Game on ! April we have a huge amountof events coming up

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

 

Poverty, because it’s not just in third world Countries. It’s in our world too. 

 

 

Join Habitat for Humanity of Westchester on February 6 at 4p.m. for a Mardi Gras celebration at 659 Main Street, New Rochelle, NY 10801! We will have live music, authentic New Orleans style food, and much more! All proceeds for the event will go towards the revival of a home in New Orleans!

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Like Us" on Habitat for Humanity of Westchester Facebook!

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

Spring into action; the next 25 years!

 

 

 

 

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We move into Memorial Day weekend..we kickoff our New makers space Made in New Rochelle Art woodwork and more!

This great space is amazing..we work to move ahead, to help make this world better, building rebuilding making!

The makers space will teach great people to build again, design again, make repurposed items out of fabric and more..

We are amazed at what happens, to help this great space become an incubator for Rockwells, for great carpenters and builders and for future habitaters..

 

Memorial Day weekend, what an honor, to Marines and one West Point Grad came into me to meet with me…I cant believe this, but only that our commitment to veterans is stronger than ever….we have helped sooo many vets, …my assistant a wounded warrior, another vet for instance we hired and helped to put his badge on him two years later as a yonkers policeman..Jason a marine who was on verge of being homeless, and another vet john Vietnam vet…was was homeless and now his whole family reunited into a habitat home.

We are more commited now more than ever to make life great, for everyone, to help every vet have a home and a job..to celebrate using our hands, not for typing as  I do now, but for building with love, making with love LOVE IN THE MORTAR JOINTS..IN THE TWO BY FOURS, IN THE HABISACKS BAGS, IN THE PALLATE FURNITURE, IN THE HOMES WE BUILD! we continue!

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Back from Northern Westchester, at 9pm..i started in mt Vernon at 6am..a long day, but reminds me of the tale of two cities this county is..some cities no trees in areas, others, forests in towns..some cities glutted with failed affordable subsidized housing, not ownership the others, failed lawsuit building, no affordable homes being built..

Some with poor education, others highest sats..

Some towns white, affluent with presidents and wanna be presidents, governors and wanna be governors, congresswomen, and wannabes, in all primarily in all white affluent towns with little or no affordable homes…

What a world..the country of Westchester…time to change it, whose in…the theology of the hammer continues….