WANTED!

Pictures from Bayer's "Camp Habitat" Day 1

A beautiful day for building a floor system! Bayer MaterialScience personnel came out to lend a hand today.

Scenes from the Construction Site - Tuesday Crew

Ruel Elliott, wounded warrior back to work after a nasty ladder fall in June. Notice, Mrs, Elliott, that his feet are on the ground!


It takes teamwork to figure out inside drip edge corners. Mike, Mike and Bob tackle the problem.

Ken and Louise remind themsleves what it is like to pour 12 yards of concrete!

Bob Hinckley shingling the roof of Clyde & Donja Brown's house.

Alan and Ken at the end of a productive day!

The ReStore is a program of Habitat for Humanity which enables house building through the sales of new, used and surplus donated building materials. In addition, it serves as a recycling outlet for Habitat, other builders, businesses and community members.

The Mission of the Habitat ReStore

• Provide additional funding to support our Habitat's house building goals in Kanawha and Putnam Counties.
• Divert construction and household materials from landfills and protect the environment.
• Expand opportunities to serve a broader base of the community by providing low-cost materials.

Our Habitat ReStore opened on Earth Day in 2001. Since opening, $1,000,229 in proceeds have helped sponsor 19 Habitat Houses for families in need.

Habitat ReStore has had many significant environmental accomplishments. It sponsored and hosted the 2009 and 2010 Charleston Sustainability Fair. There were over 100 exhibitors in environmental, social and economic sustainability and over 2,000 people attended. ReStore has performed one full deconstruction of a house and multiple cherry-picking deconstructions. It also installed Charleston's very first rain garden which diverts 26,000 gallons of polluted water from storm drains.

But here's the biggest thing I bet you didn't know. ReStore depends on volunteers to make these things happen. ReStore needs volunteers to help with weeding that rain garden, riding with the donation driver to pick up donations, arranging and making things pretty on the sales floor. While the ReStore has a wonderful staff and a few dedicated, regular volunteers, the truth is ReStore needs more volunteers. Without volunteers, ReStore wouldn't be able to do the awesome things it has done already. Come out and be apart of something great! To volunteer at ReStore, email Lori Wyatt, Volunteer Coordinator at lori@hfhkp.org.

Habitat for Humanity Women Build

Good Wednesday everyone! I know it's been sometime since the blog has been updated and I'm hoping to make it a much more frequently updated one. So let's start things out with the news that we are forming a committee for a Women's Build. The date for that meeting is July 22nd at 5:30 here at our offices. This meeting will establish the steering committee for the Women Build project. Then we will hold a general meeting for everyone who is interested in volunteering in other capacities. And believe me, we will need lots of volunteers!

Women Build is Habitat’s volunteer program for women who want to learn construction skills and make a difference by building homes and communities.Women Build projects are regularly held by Habitat affiliates across the United States, and by Habitat organizations around the world. Women at these builds have furthered Habitat’s home-building mission by helping to construct more than 1,700 houses. The FAQ's on Habitat International's website covers even more.

Our goal is to build an entire house from the ground up by women! I know that many of you are thinking, "I don't have any construction skills at all. I can't do that." Here's the good news. You don't have to have any skills whatsoever. That's right. I said no skills are needed. We supply you with the tools and skills you will need. It's pretty cool. I know. So, check the blog frequently as there will be plenty of updates, not just about Women Build but about all things HFHKP related! See you soon!

BrickStreet Volunteers Help Habitat

On Friday BrickStreet sent eleven of its finest to help us build a retaining wall and hang siding on the back of Lulina Gaymon's house on North Hills Drive.

The news was there and made a TV star out of Lucy Allara:

Thanks BrickStreet!

The weather outside is awesome! I was at the jobsites this morning - we have two now, one in Dunbar and the other in Charleston - and everybody was working in their t-shirts! It won' tbe long before we see trees start to bud and flowers.

You can see that the house on the right (#133) is moving along quite well. That's the one that we've been working on the past few snow storms :)

Perhaps you've thought about volunteering with us in the past, and have put it off because of the weather. You've almost no excuse now...the weather is starting to break. Be sure to visit http://hfhkp.volunteerhub.com to register as a volunteer and sign up for a day to work with us!