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Beaches Habitat homes are constructed through one of a number of different Build programs. All Build programs involve a collaboration between Beaches Habitat, sponsor organizations, a Habitat family, and volunteers. As such, a “Build” is a partnership of individuals, just like you, joining together from the larger community to share in the goal of eliminating substandard housing. At Beaches Habitat, the typical Build is referred to as a Partnership Build. In a Partnership Build, generally, the sponsor organization is a business entity or church group. Volunteers that work on a Partnership Build most often consist of employees or congregation members of the sponsor organization, along with many of the Beaches Habitat regular volunteers. Each participant in a Build contributes a different resource to a project. The sponsor contributes funds or an in-kind donation to provide for the materials necessary to build the home. Material cost for a home is about $35,000. Volunteers contribute the labor needed to build the home. On average, 1,400 labor hours are required to construct a home. Each adult in the selected Habitat Homeowner family is required to contribute 200 hours of “sweat equity”, working side-by-side with volunteers to complete the home. Beaches Habitat overseas the project, providing planning, coordination and supervision. Together these resources provide the key ingredients required to transform a vision of ending substandard housing into reality. All that’s missing are two essential ingredients that only you can provide, a pinch of love and a dash of laughter. So come on and get involved in a Habitat Build – click here to become a Habitat volunteer today! If you, or your organization, would like to learn more about being a sponsor, email us for information.
Beaches Habitat also employs a number of specialized Build programs. These programs are tailored to the specific objectives of certain sponsor and volunteer groups. For example, in the Beaches Habitat “Women Build” program volunteers are exclusively women. You can learn more about the specialized Build programs of Beaches Habitat by selecting one of the following links:
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