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Another #Saturday with #Habitatofwestchestervolunteerers!  #WinterWarriors, that what you are..

Winter warrior swag is coming! I love seeing volunteers like #FordhamUniversity in the #Rockaways, and #relig in our #newrochelle sites..

We also come upon our annual #MartinLutherKingbuildathon! Amazing..for ten days we we build and celebrate the dream….

Before that we have our ReyesMagos celebration tomorrow…celebrating three kings and the first where gifts and candy will be given to our friends…

Bendiciones!

We are all on earth to volunteer..no question…to help one another, not just during a crisis bur continually…that’s our mission..so sign up early..our Corporate Challenge is coming..our#PopeFrancis house being built…be like Dave Worsley with his wife and kids who donated shingles yesterday to two homes, and came out and helped…..or our retirees, who come continuousllly,

Lives depend upon  your help…become a #Mentor, help run a special event for us..join our 30 to 30 campaign.

30 neighborhoods for our 30^th anniversary over the next four years..

God bless you! we thank you we pray for your, we love you…with great gratitude..email relief@habitatwc.org for more info..

 

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. 

 

Please give this Holiday season; www.habitatwc.org

 

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It’s the anniversary of Haiti!

It s also a day when the court monitor is challenging Harrison to do the housing it needs to.

Funny, groups get selective depending upon their political bent..

I don’t care about politics, it’s the people….democrats and republicans both have a responsibility to speak up

On this issue, no question…but selectively only one or two get picked while others remain silence..silence is deafening..

That is what is a challenge in this county as we prepare for our Martin Luther King buildathon…

We commend David McKay Wilson on his helping to keep the light of the Jim Crow North as I call it going.

God celebrates diversity, if you don’t think so, then get ready when its time…

If you believe in any HolyBook..then its time to speak up to build and rebuild.

And the thing is we can do it..look it as positive where we can design anything..

Where beautiful condos coops in Harrison and other towns will be for workers, the average jim and jill

Juan and Maria, Tony and Fransesca…come on..lets go Westchester!!!!!!

Kembe Fem, we are now more commited than ever to help in Haiti….but also more commited than ever

To make a diverse community inWestchester of all colors, of all languages…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. 

 

Please give this Holiday season; www.habitatwc.org

 

 

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

 

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The year Christmas pasts 2014…we have volunteers this Christmas Saturday and Christmas days two Jewish families took their time to spend with us, an honor..

The essence of lifes success is to volunteer…like Mike who is out in Breezy helping today, Tuckahoe high school, who is helping and the many churches like the Greek Orthodox Church of new Rochelle

Who helped us this past Thanksgiving. Its time your church, syngagogue or company gets involved..dont you think..or your family..

Or you being home from college,

With that in mind,we work to continue to change homes, to change lives, to be blessed in all we do.

So grateful this Christmas for our new Restore..

So grateful for all our donors

For all our board members,

For all our staff and volunteers..

Our international partrners from Haiti, to Santo Domingo, to El Salvador to Argentina to everywhere…

We are like building elves.. on a mission 24/7…come and join us.

Join us this year…volunteer with us, help us http://www.habitatwc.org

 

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. 

 

Please give this Holiday season; www.habitatwc.org

 

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

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

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What an honor it is to always be helping people….just got off the phone with my good friend JimPate of New Orleans, a great director and friend.  We had helped a number of families in NOLA, who returned, those who got displaced to NY.  We have another family to get back in, but with Sandy hitting, we have been a little busy.

The cost of living, is really pretty amazingly out of control…..in NY. The imprudent overdevelopment creates another nightmare ready to happen….are we ready..for Katrina, for Sandy, for who comes next.

I think not…to that end we move and breathe and fight and build and rebuild.

Grateful to all my construction workers to sesh and Steve, and all grateful to all my board, to all my HOPES volunteers, who help us, build and rebuild…like Tom and Norma and Mary and Jim. I am grateful for Claude Jeudy mon frere dan Haiti, who we keep supporting and tithing, grateful for all our habitat leaders.

To that end we work. And continue………

May God bless you, in all you do. help us help others, the HolySpirit guides us each minute.

 

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. 

 

Please give this Holiday season; www.habitatwc.org

 

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

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

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As move ahead, I get inspired by the #youth volunteering… the future is bright..we have #volunteers from all over the country..from #Michigan, from #Maryland, from #Virginia, from #NY ,

All over.

It is one of the most exciting things there is..

These youth become Habitat heroes their whole life..

Jess from Pelham High School Habitat club led their first Gingerbread house event last nite raising support for the builds they do..

Americorp volunteer with us on sites and help lead.

#Lizbeth helped with #NewRochelle high school habitat members this Sunday.

At the end of the day we are all put on earth to help..no question…no matter what age.

Then we have our #retirees …youthful in another way,, who help….Tom, Mary, Bill, so many help…

Thank you all!

 

To that end we continue..

In the #Sandy relief efforts…

In fighting for #NY, to have homes, ins rebuilding and building, #green and smart.

We have our two command centers now and a third and fourth are on the way..

Stay tuned…to that end we need #disastercaptains, for our model..we will be making our #restore adaptable in case of a disaster as well as our command center at Chrsit Community Church.

 

We have learned from experiences and now are experts in #disaster relief…from the Nodine Hill fire, to fountainplace fire in New Rochelle to rebuilding Mamoroneck to rebuilding in the Rockaways..

Your support for these efforts is vital. God bless you!

 

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. 

 

Please give this Holiday season; www.habitatwc.org

 

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

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

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Christmas time…Hanukkah time..tis the season..for great mitzvah, Christian charity, habitat elves..what a site..building, helping..like #ConEd elves..helping..or like #LizbethSandoval and her #NewRochelle high school elves,

Or #Restore elves, Harvey and Daniel and Big Tom and Mary, all helping with making homes becomea reality thru our work…what a true Blessing..

The Earth is the Lords and all that is within the Psalmist writes! Nehemiah writes we must be Repairers of the Breach..Jesus was in the manger..we need to build more homes for those in need..moms and kids come in all the time.. the landlord has left mice in the room with no heat ..he works in city hall.. I live in a  basement apartment..my kids are cramped…what becomes of a society that doesn’t change this…ITS TIME! We can have NEW VISIONS..GODLY VISIONS..ones that the God of Abraham has called us to have to be the Nehemiahs and Moses and Jesus in our world..to rebuild..to make it NMU for all No More Ugly.  Join us this holiday season with a donation to help us continue..Join us this holiday season in Building..join us in our Martin Luther King buildathon….celebrating diversity..Join us in our vital Sandy work..

The Earth is the Lords and all that is within..pray for one another, for your family for our families..for each second is gift.. you are too! God bless you.

 

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. 

 

Please give this Holiday season; www.habitatwc.org

 

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

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

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Its Christmas time..the music in the back playing in our #Restore,…elves around..a Bronx Christmas chamber event.

And much more..we love Christmas…

500 toys by the #aisling center, for our kids in the #Sandy relief …300 new coats for Veterans..a new #restore..

Our first ever #DickVanDyke Celebration of his birthday Dec 13^th on Historic Main St in SoNo NewRochelle, and an electrician passing our permits for two vets homes…every second is gift.. you are too..

The studies show we are still in the midst of a crisis..the front page of the #WestchesterBusinessJournal shows me at #GrandCentral at a press conference…fighting that no more luxury right now in #Harrison.. that the #MTA has a moral and economic responsibility in a town under a federal lawsuit to do affordable homes..live every town and city in America..this is our mission, this is our Christmas song..#LoveNewYorkdontLeave it, #NMU no more ugly, everyone a home..is that asking too much Lord. 

The Psalmist wrote the Earth is the Lords and all that is within….blessed be the Lord, blessed be #HabitatofWestchester, our donors,

Our helpers and volunteers..join us…http://www.habitatwc.org

 

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. 

 

Please give this Holiday season; www.habitatwc.org

 

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

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

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#veterans day..how we live, how we roll, how we move, with freedom, to speak, move around and exist.

This becomes our challenge..for our Vets, who return often with no job, no homes…we are blessed to know today we dedicate two homes for Mike and Nikki and Jeff and Tara, to live and have family lives with the dream of home ownership of habitat…

Mike and Nikki were in Afghanistan, met as marines, returned to Nikkis birth In Yonkers…they heard about us thru our band leader Will, who lives in the hood..who knew we needed homes for families.  Chosen, great parents, Mike working as an electrician, Nikki a nurse….their lives changed forever in what we call Battle Hill….the battle for Veterans to take it back to help to make it work.

I remember the reverence we had for  our uncles in WW2 , who fought in Anzio and overseas…three brothers of my mother all who served. I remember the day we got the call my cousin had died Michael….who served in Vietnam.  I remember my cousin, a prisoner of war and hero, who came back and started a drivers school…..I remember visiting the graves of all of them, Memorial day..and the remembrances of freedoms….

I also remember being in countries where I felt unsafe…helping to rebuild and returning to freedom, to life and love.

With that in mind, we celebrate every veteran today.

Ivan and his family

Mike and his family, our next vets applying for homes. we remember Arthur a WW 2 vet who we rehabbed his house in Hurricane Sandy areas….we continue…..

May God bless every vet with a home and a job…may we take no freedom for granted..may the centurions of great faith the bible spoke of lead and love all of us in freedoms and may we remember each one of them and pray for them today….and then act to help them. Please donate to our Vets initaitives today http://www.habitatwc.org

 

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

 

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

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

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A rainy day, but God works..and so don’t our volunteers…these are the days when I see the #retirees helping that amazing things  happen…our HOPES retirees…The biggest exchange of retirees in history is happening…and they love to #volunteer with us..what an honor and a blessing…

Their wisdom, their hands, their sweat equity, like Rich and Lee and Big Tom and Mary and Ron, and Donald, Sue, and Norma..and all the gang..their contribution is invaluable…no question.

With that in mind we continue we celebrate, we honor them, we bless them, we t hank them.

They worked in the rain today..on two #Vets families…homes today..two marines who served in harms ways…

What an honor to see them work so hard for #Veterans families…what an honor it is to write about them.

Please contribute to our cause, more homes await our rehabbing them..for the sake of lives, neighborhoods and the American way!--

 

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Plutocracy development…a new term I coined…that is really the way we see all our towns and cities developing..what about seniors, vets, working people…what about ownership by the people, for the people, not the developers and politicians…

Part of it is the way the system is gamed…tax credits don’t increase taxes , increase kids in the school system, and don’t create a long term intergenerational new York…then why do we believe it..who is making out…the plutocracy, the marketing to other wealthy countries, the areas that are being gentrified, and the models of perpetuating poverty, that have not empowered people to live with dignity.   Its time for change…join us in our WarOnPoverty Walk for homes now, this Sunday….two miles, and for those that want to walk with me from yonkers more…see our website.. God bless you..change is coming…

 

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

 

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

 

Habitat for Humanity Westchester NY - 25 Years

Spring into action; the next 25 years!