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Today we work in the inner city, transforming it with many people, many volunteers..50 plus in making it NMU..no more ugly.. a change so that there is relationship building, together..building community together…tomorrow another group works with me in MtVernon, we continue, to are blessed to help to see what we can do tpo help our Gateways neighborhood there improve to great beauty, so many great people. 

I have been blssed to work in the inner cities, the gateways, for a number of years…we work together to help change neighborhoods together, God celebrates diversity, no question.

As we look at what happened in Baton Rouge, Minnesota, Dallas, we pray and are more committed in the theology of the hammer, and the theology of  diversity, I  call it.. God celebrates diversity, no question…but many of our faith communities are not, and we need all to realize in Gods eyes we are equal, in our mission, all should go to bed at nite in a simple decent home!

To that end, we work harder than ever, we pray, and we move ahead..

jjk

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Early morning runs to our community gardens in #MtVernon and #NewRochelle.

The Gardens help to bring joy, NMU. No more Ugly a term I created, hope, beauty and love to people

We also have changed the Ashburton corridor as well with the gardens, green space is needed for sure..

Many volunteers help me from all over, no question..they plant, the clean, the come together in community knowing each others neighbors.

Last week I was invited to speak at the #Chappaqua community garden, helping to speak about community and home building there.

The leaders are making signs and on July 16^th they are helping to sell them at the Farmers Market.

 

Main St NewRochelle Ashburton Yonkers and Mt Vernon Avneue Mt Vernon are all our neighborhoods of Habitat, of Gods neighborhoods, of the people.

We have pushed hard to stop heavy traffic accidents, and we also help push for crosswalks, buttons, beauty, NMU…sometimes the they don’t like speaking up by us,

But they have to fix the problems…People have environmental injustice…..happening all the time….just this week three accidents on Main St….in SoNO Newrochelle

In the Gateways.. I ran out, two elderly people hit from behind in their car, and the driver was dizzy, falling into the street, walking in circles, I calmed him, had him sit back in

While calling the police and ambulance and ended up driving their car to the hospital, ….this happens often….it has to stop. A car went through our old restore, at 524 main

And then it went through two other storefronts, speeding at octavios and also the former clark realty..speeding,…they life.

Main st needs tobe Main St again……

Mt Vernon avenue, speeding happens too..our planter program…green planters, as green goes up crime goes down, changes the concrete jungles into streets and neighborhoods again..

Government responds slowly, too slow, but the people need to get involved in their neighborhoods..the lack of voting for officials is at a dismal low in NY, and in our neigbhborhoods,

We encourage voter registration too, and community participation……however elected officials come and go..but people stay and live.they are the main stay….like us..

Join us the excitement is building and growing and changing highways to neighborhoods again..

 

With that in mind we will have three cookouts in the our gardens in the abovementioned areas..join us!

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An honor to speak at ST Pauls Historic Church in MtVernon, a national historic site..

This was a ceremony about he declaration of independence, and I asked us all to be more vigilant, prayerful, faithful

And remember our freedoms..Freedom, Faith and the future..

We also need freedom from cars, computers and campaigns…they have been hurting us along with little or no affordable housing..to this end we work..

We continue..to help create green communities that will help us build and rebuild the future in ways that are great for all, from babies to elderly, from school workers to school principals..

A homeless woman called my phone this morning, jim I had to stay at the train station again..can you help get me a shower today…what a world..

We have to have a better way of helping those in need in our communities….from Veterans to retirees, from milleniels and more to others..

Its time! Join us in this vital work, life saving, community changing.. God bless America..

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How blessed we are as we work in new Rochelle, yonkers, Chappaqua, millwood, mt Vernon today.

Our volunteers are our life blood. Fema stating we gave 9  million dollrs to the rockaways helps us to realize

How important we have saved lives changed lives, saved communities…the #broken window theory to theend degree..

What broken windows do you see daily, are we dull to them, do we accept mediocrity, do we ask God for guidance to make the world better

Every day..it is truly our mission…in a world that needs hope, love, windows, fixed, hearts mended, religions with love as one,

And NMU..No More Ugly…

Join us in this vital mission s we make America better on the way to the 4^th of July and every day and everywhere..

God bless America and the world..we need extra blessings God…we pray

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Yesterday morning one of our families came in to visit..what an  honor..

Coming to help us and talk.. the daughter I hadn’t seen since she was young..

Now a teacher she is doing amazing…the next door family, whose two kids also graduated college, one from Syracuse the other Sacred Hart..

One not working in the finance world..the other now working as a nurse..

What world we live in..kids working, studying, having  a safe home to succeed..another one of the many benefits of habitats world..the nume one private builder in the country, lets make it #1 in NY< in building home ownership again…are you with me..

God bless you..jjk

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What a day, kicking off more than 250 volunteers, we continue strong..

Never stopping, we have two companies and an eagle scout group volunteering today..

As I talk to one of the finance companies, someone asks, jim, you are right about the manufacturing needing to come back..to help communities…the carpet mills used to be at the bottom of where we have contributed more than 2 million dollars of volunteer labor…build 15 new homes and fifteen community gardens, as well as helped to rehab 25 homes…

As I drive a way, two young gentlemen ask..in their 20s…we need jobs! I stop give them my card, ask them to pray for me to get capital to hire more people to help change lives and hoods together…and drive away,

Urban America, typical..everyone wants a shot, needs a job a home, a park a good hood..will you donate today…

God bless you, we change lives and hoods one day at a time…adding up to quality of life changes needed for all!

 

Jim Killoran

Habitatwc.org

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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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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….