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Each second is gift…we are blessed to help , all over the world and here..

On this Columbus day, I celebrate Italian heritage Spanish heritage, Indian heritage..

After all they were here first..

I just ate at Esquina El Salvador….pulpusas sir..no gracias..but beans, and juevos y mas..

I remember Easter Week going to El Salvador, helping with earthquake victims there…having gone with Habitat and a team…

An interesting country, beautiful , we stayed in Sonsonate, while others worked in Salvador, el capital…

Houses were rocked, devastated, the whole time, I mixed concrete..all I did…mas mexcla more mix, more concrete mix..

Pouring water, mixing, it was what we did…

To help someone have a home, love in the mortar joints as one of millards books stated, the founder and friend..

Donde vive, I ask the mujer at the counter..Portchester….

I remember machine guns, outside the doors of our place we ate…protecting us…have you ever had to be protected by machine guns…

Seeing places like that, I understand why people want to live in Portchester, or Ny, or anywhere but…     tu quiere un mas Bueno vida….you want a better life..

So heres to Italy, and El Salvador, and Mexico and Ireland..and America….i had no machine guns outside the restaurant, just great food, and now off to our new Restore…bendiciones! Viva America!!!!!! Viva Salvador..gracias a Dios para todo!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 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. 

War on Poverty; Walk for Homes Sunday, Novermber 2, 2014

 

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Last nite as I returned back from Brooklyn from one of my #Sandy staffs moms wake..i remember getting lost on the same street, early after Sandy, as I tried to figure easier roads to return.

The road was flooded, desolate..like a  Halloween movie..

With that in mind..i remember how hard we worked and still worked..i sat down with Sesh and Tom too of my diehards for Sandy relief..Sesh my main construction manager, and inspiration…

And Big Tom, our Hopes retiree who went out for 20 months…as I went to pay the bill, the woman said thank you for all you do….thank you..for being here….so many still are not in..

Two years later…so many still are not in..

I called Tom McCarthy of breezy point…Tom…how are you man…he said Jimmy boy, we need to meet, your idea that Biden and Cuomo took, we  need to get the National Disaster university going….

On Jan 24, 2013 proposed a National Disaster University be created…at Suny Purchase the last speaker…to speak and the only one Ch 12 interviewed….i proposed with Cephan Kim interviewing me later..in front of the now defunct Moreland commission, and commission that has been damaged for lack of credibility…that a university be created…stay tuned….Gov and Vice Pres Joe..credit needs to be given where credit is due….

More important..no matter what party, both sides have not the capability nor the wsdom yet for recovery….16000 families still now in….unacceptable…..

Its time..stay tuned for my #Sandy special shows coming up…..

 

Yesterday our retirees helped us….and joined me for lunch..once a month we are joined…

We move ahead..we are blessed with so many who help us…the retirees with wisdom, financial support, sweat equity, families services and more are always there……God bless you!

Our work continues at our new Restore/greencenter/disaster center… with that in mind our grand opening is Oct 2^nd…join us!!!!!!!!!!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 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. 

War on Poverty; Walk for Homes Sunday, Novermber 2, 2014

 

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Each second in life is gift..no question.

With that in mind, we pray, we work, we breathe, we are blessed..in all we do..

Tony lost his home in a fire, we are helping him, met he and his family at 1030 at nite with the Alvarez..they have been taken advantage of, but we will fight..initially the landlord

Asked me to raise money for them, while he has made thousands upon thousands on them over the years…unacceptable..

We hit the ground running, like our troops did and still are doing in #Sandy relief..no question..

It is time, for us to change the way new York rolls….75 percent of nyc is surrounded by water..

The sound shore by ocean…hudson valley, well by the Hudson river, saw mill, Bronx river etc..with waters rising we have to build more resilient.we are there.

To that end..its time to redesign ny green, robert moses would not be happy, but his car happy highway happy overdevelopment usually through minority neighborhoods,

Causes much problems asthma and overdensity.

But we can change this..we can grow food, urban gardens, solar roofs, urban green hoods..NMU and yes its good to be in the hood!its time…

 

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 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. 

War on Poverty; Walk for Homes Sunday, Novermber 2, 2014

 

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On 911 the world was changed forever this 911 past week we had 300 volunteers, so grateful! From all over they came, from Greenwich, and Horace Mann and Goldman Sachs, and Avalon…from M and T Bank and Hastings high school and more….amazing..so much work done..then we culminated with a day of our Young #Vetsclub working and celebrating each second together with a cookout in Battle  Hill…amazing!

With that in mind we continue, we are blessed to work to continue our Vets homes….we are blessed to move in five more Sandy families, we are blessed to live with freedoms  and love and life….its time to help…email relief@habitatwc.org to get involved, and please make a donation today!

God bless America!

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What a blessing as we come into Labor Day to be able to help with Habitat of Westchester…my thousands of volunteers who inspire me daily who give back..help us to change live and save lives..from the hood to the hurricane..they are life changers and savers..i cannot  thank you enough. We welcome Meghan Kenia, who is now helping with Volunteers ..stay tuned….we will be now increasing across the county our outreach for volunteers..

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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#Saturdays   #habitatSaturdays…across the world, families do sweat equity…#volunteers help…in #Sandy relief..in #Westchester, in #Haiti, in #dominican republic, all over the world..amazing.

The Holy Spirit, the Ruah continues to bless us….we are so blessed to reach out to all cultures. We are also blessed to have our #youngvets club volunteer today..aiding us.. assisting us, to help dreams come true….

We work to change neighborhoods into NMU …No More Ugly..God gave us everything …to make every neighborhood safe, peaceful,, with jobs and homes..and more..

Amazing!  We continue… in all we do…to change lives, to make it happen..to make every one, no matter what faith, no matter what religion..in the theologyofthehammer, to have an opportunity for a great life, home, hood…join us and donate today too…http://www.habitatwc.org

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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NMU means no more Ugly..

What does it mean to you..

No More Ugly..means No More Ugly neighborhoods for any kid, no more run down homes, no more run down lots, no more run down parks, no more run down stores..NMU thas the cry for sure! Are you with us..we have NMU captains being established NOW! Call me at 914 4034821..get your congregation or company out volunteering with us! NOW.! NMU all the time in westchester, its vitally needed..jjk

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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Today another 70 volunteers…where do we go from here..

70 volunteers that are neighborhood changers, life changers, changing others lives and there own..NMU in mt Vernon,

NMU..we say..thank you td bank..thankyou volunteers from goldman sachs..

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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This weekend we are rededicating our command center and our work in Hurricane Sandy at Christ Community Church.  We have had thousands of people go through that Church, we continue and rededicate our selves spiritually to continue to help those in need…those who need to be able to get back in their homes, to have less anxiety….we pray and work harder than ever!

With that in mind this week we helped work on five #Sandy relief homes..and we also helped to be able to finish the command center, as well as work on helping some one in the Rockaways get into an apartment with security, due to Sandy assistance funds running out….the case studies on all this will be amazing…we still are not ready for disaster…That is why I proposed to the now defunct #MorelandCommission, Jan 24, 2013 the  creation of a #NationalDisasterUniversity…where every utility worker in the country become certified…if NY goes under the country goes…in the midst of sandy relief I was invited after having been interviewed be #CefanKim of #news12…about my idea…to share my idea…in the midst of sandy relief still three months after…thick of things…we continued day to day…90 days ago the Governor and Vice President Joe Biden  announced the need for a national disaster university…what a great idea..haha,  we were not included nor invited..stay tuned.

We work harder than ever with our team and volunteers today in Sandy relief.

We also work in Yonkers and New Rochelle and Mt Vernon on the tri cities neighborhood inititiave..NRI..its GOOD TO BE IN THE HOOOD!  ..For sure… as I want to check early morning in Mt Vernon and New Rochelle today at 6am, like I do often, watering our gardens…helping to make them NMU..people come by and say..can I help you…like early evening Carolina Rodriguez, a great person, and actually a Miss Westchester contestant..She saw me in the garden stopped and she and her friend Vickie with other are going to help!   How goes your garden grow in the hood..with neighbors like Caroline and Vickie, or Janelle who helped in New Rochelle or DJ in Yonkers with Will…all wanting more green space in their neighborhoods…

As green goes up crime goes down…as home ownership goes up, education goes up and crime goes down…so we green every neighborhood..

Today we also build in Yonkers on #Veterans homes…Ivan and his family cant wait.  Thank you #GoldmanSachs for your continuing commitment to helping us.   We also yesterday closed on Rose Browns home In #whitePlains…an amazing feat to see done..congrads Rose, in memory of Ralph Degnan, who helped build it and passed, may you be blessed always and for generations to come….an amazing home…

 

May God bless you ..let the truth be known..may we go forth, to make this world much better…we HAVE TO! For future generations…..NMU..No More Ugly, Green and a simple decent home for all. jjk

 

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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ITS GOOD TO BE IN THE  HOOD…

We target neighborhoods, revitalization, safety, hope, homes, gardens, goodnees, love, life, parks and people..everyone gets lifted up! Lets go….

Help us..ITS GOOD TO BE IN THE HOOD!

We are targeting every neighborhood we are in…we are just beginning..our thousands of volunteers, schools that help, families that love us..we look forward to changing neighborhoods together…

The war on poverty, fifty years out, should have ended by now! We believe that and to that end…we continue….to change lives to change hoods ..to help bring hope and homes…

THE GATEWAYS NEIGHBORHOOD….in Mt Vernon

SONO NEW ROCHELLE on Main St in New Rochelle south of north and all around..

BATTLE HILL BUSINESS DISTRICT..on Ashburton, from Warburton to Nepperhan..its good to be in the hood..

Help us…a full plan to revitalize…!

 

Jim Killoran, Executive Director

Habitat for Humanity of Westchester

524 Main Street, New Rochelle NY 10801

(914) 403-4821

 

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