In 2002, Habitat for Humanity of Wake County in Raleigh, North Carolina, along with a local builder of custom homes, decided to enlist the help of 11 colleagues who were also professional home builders, to see if they could do the impossible: build one house each in a 5-day period, donating as much of the …
We’re doing big things for a big mission! The Habitat Store is happy to announce that we’ve done an entire Store and receiving room “reset,” and we now have a new Bargain Center. The Habitat Store Staff, along with a team of volunteers, worked tirelessly to redesign how the Store space is used. Our receiving …
The Santiago Reyes family came to Washington in 2006. They came to work in agriculture, on a raspberry farm in Lynden, Washington. Life in a small farm cabin was very difficult, especially in winter. There was a stove, electricity, and a small refrigerator, but no bathroom and no running water or heat. Today, Eli works …
On August 28th I attended an excellent program presented by the Bellingham City Club where both mayoral candidates, April Barker and Seth Fleetwood, shared their thoughts about the major crises we’re facing as a community. Besides the obvious one typically associated with Habitat, the housing crisis, others were discussed as well: the homeless crisis, the …
