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Its Friday, long weeks, weekends, 8 days a week to try to change the situation that exists..just to change wwhat is an obscene situation, no housing for its citizens, or workers. Luxury housing is glutting across the county

The obscenity that seniors cannot live here, that people cannot survive here,

That people have to leave here to Ct. to other states is crazy..

That is vital for all of us..

No question..Our heart of our mission is to build and rebuild simply and decently no question..

With that in mind we continue..

We build in Chappaqua, in Millwood, in Yonkers, in Ossining in Mt Veron, in NewRochelle, in Pelham, andmore..

We rehab seniors homes that are run down, we help stop foreclosures, we rehab hurricane sandy homes, we help fire victims, we design new neighborhoods.

With that in mind we are on a mission stronger than ever..

Along with that we have built 200 small homes in third world countries..

No question..

Join us and help us with your donation today, http://www.habitatwc.org

 

 

Jim Killoran, CEO

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 636-8335 ext. 101

 

Join our Martin Luther King Jr. Build-A-Thon January 10^th thru January 16^th! Sponsorships are available. Visit www.Habitatwc.org

 

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

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Happy Valentines Day!

 

Maybe everyday be Valentines for you…for us here, it is.

We see our ministry as a work of Love, of helping others, or coming together to help families live and

To have homes of hope, of health of transformation.  

We have been in existence for almost 30 years..Next year we celebrate a whole year of activity and

Success.  From all our work in disasters, to helping rehab Zombie homes, to transforming neighborhoods, to

Building green, Zero energy and Passive homes..we have changed generations of families lives.

 

I often say no one has the challenges we do in this county in the country.   We have the highest taxes, real estate is sky rocketing

And land being designated for luxury occurs quicker than I can get a piece of land for a Veteran returning from Iraq and their family.

However, with Gods help, and yours, our success becomes a reality!  Your donation brings Valentines to many in the form of a safe simple decent home!

Now more than ever we need your support.

 

Heres some of what we have been involved in.

 

Yonkers: Our vital work in Yonkers continues! We have been moving ahead helping so many. Just last week our West Point Cadets came and will be out two more times just in February, building on Veterans homes in what we call Battle Hill.   Our winter Warriors in the form of HOPES, habitat opportunities for experienced seniors, sees every Tues and Thurs volunteers build on our sites there.   Horace Mann High school habitat builders continue with their great support of sponsoring their 3^rd Veterans home, amazing!  They send every student out to build with us as well.

 

 

Chappaqua/Millwood: the work to get Chappaqua and Millwood off the ground has been moving ahead. Foundation work of shoring up what are historic structures

So that our building this spring is strong, we need your donation, in our sponsor a

 

Senior Rehabs: this week we went to yet another senior home to help rehab their kitchen.  So Many seniors are burdened on fixed incomes to try to help rehab their home or keep it maintained while paying their taxes, a near impossible task.  But with Gods help and Habitat of Westchester many seniors have hope…and their homes rehabbed with our Brush with Kindness program.  From Pelham to Ossining, we have been

 

Veterans initatiives:we just sent 50 care packages to soldiers and their units overseas two weeks ago so they would receive notes of love and packages of joy from our volunteers.  They arrive today, for those in units, with help from Trinity School, Byram Hills Highschool, NewRochelle Key Club  and the American Legion.  Our commitment to Veterans also include hiring local vets in partime to full time positions, into our quilt of love here, so our Veteran community can grow in support, and with roofs for families to have over their heads when they return from overseas!

 

Restore/ Headquarters….Our Restore becomes more than just  a store…it has been salvific for homeowners who move into their first time home by getting supplies that they can rehab their homes,  with quality, yet affordable  purchases of cabinets, windows, doors, furniture etc, to help them be able to live in their home.  Also we have donated more than 220 families free furniture in fires over the last two years.  Our headquarters becomes another door of love and community, of shelter for fire victims, at 659 Main St as well as  where during the holidays we gave more than 300 gifts to kids from the neighborhood as well as sponsoring local events like the Three Kings Event, a Community breakfast and yes on Feb 24^th  a Mardi Gras Event with Dave Fabris and his Mudsole Band! Join us or email me jim@habitatwc.org to listen and join in the fun.  Our response to disasters and fire victims takes a new form, when we are often there with water, coffee, supplies and the ability to help put up families and follow them through getting placed in homes.  Because we are in an affordable housing crisis, often people think after a couple of days, victims are often settled. Far from the truth, it takes a long period of time, in this tight real estate market with no affordable rentals or homes, bringing pain and stress to those who lose their home in Mt Vernon Yonkers or NewRochelle. 

 

With that in mind, we give thanks for the Love you exemplify with your all important donation for us to help go strong for the next 30 years.    Would you consider making a monthly pledge to our work?  Please donate today to this ministry of love.

 

Jim Killoran, CEO

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 636-8335 ext. 101

 

Join our Martin Luther King Jr. Build-A-Thon January 10^th thru January 16^th! Sponsorships are available. Visit www.Habitatwc.org

 

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

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We are developers of neighborhoods again.l.. a great honor…we have worked in hoods, where there were murders and now there are none..

We have worked on changing the feel of an ugly neighborhood to that of what we call NMU No More Ugly! We help work closely with police departments and local businesses, stakeholders and city officials at times, faith communities, to engage a process of transformation..we look to rehab homes, drop beautification planters we make with youth and donate flowers, and we look to change traffic patterns if they are unacceptable for the safety of the community.

I write this after getting a call from police at 4am..Mr Killoran..your truck was hit at the store..i go right down, we look at the camera, and at 2am and seven seconds, a white Mercedes was racing with  another car on Main St…Main St..not a highway. Thousands of people live here, thousands of people work here, small businesses, low income families of ethnicities and backgrounds…successful businesses, where two had cars go right through their front windows…the planters we put in front, now have saved businesses from cars going again into our windows and theirs again….

So now as I write this, at 622am, we sit and wait to get another report out to the insurance…our elbows have been hit, mirrors broken, seniors injured,

After we have generated 200,000 plus dollars of sales tax on main street, brought people from movie sets, veterans, soldiers, customers from all over the tri state area and country..had New Rochelle High school Art Pave program do a mural with kids to touch main street again.

Often, when people don’t care , and only focus on other areas of development…where high rises are scheduled..the small business community and others are forgotten and put aside, not protected, and degraded…

Cars have ruined neighborthoods, fractured legs, create unhealthy air quality, and helped to rip through usually low income residents and small business neighborhoods….with no green space…we fight for safety, we fight for traffic safety and less cars, we fight for the low income residents, no matter what language they speak…we continue….in NYC they call it #zerotolerance crashes not accidents..and more..

With that in mind…historic Main st in NewRochelle continues to be a highway, with no city workers there daily, speeding cars at all times of day and nite,

Crashes, injuries..its tme to change..stay tuned.

 

 

Jim Killoran, CEO

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

659 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 636-8335 ext. 101

 

Join our Martin Luther King Jr. Build-A-Thon January 10^th thru January 16^th! Sponsorships are available. Visit www.Habitatwc.org

 

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

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

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

Spring into action; the next 25 years!