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Help build some hope Today
Habitat for Humanity houses are special places for a special reason: They are
built with love in the mortar joints. It is the love of volunteer partners who pick up hammers to help build the homes: it is the love of the donor partners whose financial help makes these houses possible and affordable: it is the love of homeowner partners who contribute sweat equity hours in constructing their own
homes. Houses built in love are houses where hope is also at home. While hope, like love, cannot be touched, it can be seen...in the tears of
joy shed by a mother as her habitat house is dedicated; in the bright, shining eyes of a youngster seeing his or her very own room for the first time; in the work-worn hands of a father carefully planting a tree in the yard of his new habitat home. Hope, cultivated in a loving house, will spread into other areas of a family's life as surely as that tree's branches will spread out over the yard in the coming years.
We have seen it happen. We have seen homeowners return to school,
become confident and secure better employment. We learn often of a turnaround in children's performance in school. We see families so long robbed of hope believing again in themselves, in others, and in the future.
Throughout the world, Habitat for Humanity is working to eliminate poverty housing and, to date, has built houses providing shelter to more than 500,000 people. But that is just a start. Your support today can help us accelerate the pace of building houses...and hope.
We should use whatever gift we have received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its
various forms.--1 Peter 4:10
Habitat Achieves Noteworthy Ranking |
Habitat
for Humanity has been ranked one of America's 100 Best Charities by Worth
magazine for the second year in a row. The charities were divided
into five categories: environment, health, human services,
education, and relief and development. The rankings, which appear in
the December 2002 issue, are based on several criteria, including
the organizations' financial practices, impact in their fields of
service and reputation among philanthropy experts. |
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