On a beautiful day last Saturday in Santa Barbara, a total of over 70 volunteers from Thrivent Builds Lutheran and students from Westmont College and Concordia of Oregan's women soccer players came together to provide assistance with one of Habitat's A Brush with Kindness projects.
Habitat's A Brush with Kindness program works to help low-income or fixed-income homeowners to restore their homes to be a safe and decent place to live, through minor exterior repairs. The program provides materials and volunteer labor to make improvements to a house affordable and possible. Able-bodied homeowners work alongside Habitat's volunteers as part of their "sweat equity", which is central to Habitat's home building program. Through this program, homeowners are able to regain the pride of home-ownership and maintain the value of their homes.
With volunteers from Thrivent Builds Lutheran and 26 college students per house, volunteers assisted with exterior maintenance, which included a full power washing and an exterior paint job. The home repair work was for three senior female homeowners and volunteers are seen here assisting and putting their efforts to bringing repairs to the home.
A Brush with Kindness complements Habitat for
Humanity’s construction programs that bring decent and affordable homes to
low-income families. All partner families must meet Habitat’s income
requirements, as well as show a need for crucial exterior repairs and a
willingness to partner with Habitat for Humanity.
For more information on how you can volunteer on an upcoming
A Brush with Kindness project or in the Restore, please visit
www.sbhabitat.org or call 805-692-2226.
