Women Learn Construction Skills & Help Community through Habitat for Humanity Women Build Program
Description
Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build program matches women volunteers with home construction projects and opportunities to perform critical home repairs. In volunteering, the women learn new construction skills, help people in their community with housing needs, and forge lasting friendships.
Kristine Novakowski, chief executive officer of Northern Ocean Habitat for Humanity in central New Jersey, at the Jersey Shore, explains how the program works, and talks about the mission of Habitat for Humanity, which operates throughout the United States and in about 70 other countries around the world.
Habitat for Humanity focuses on shelter and advocates for affordable housing, while promoting dignity and hope. Future homeowners provide sweat equity by participating in the construction of their homes, and then purchase the home with an interest-free mortgage.
Novakowski says the need for affordable housing continues to rise; New Jersey is among states in the US with the highest housing costs.
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