A Brush with Kindness: house painting

Last Saturday, September 15th, Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County welcomed a group of volunteers from United Way's Day of Caring and Santa Barbara Bank and Trust at the current A Brush with Kindness home repair project site. Over the course of the day the volunteers painted the exterior of the house. Despite a very warm day, the volunteers kept the energy high and completed the project!

A Brush with Kindness is a program to help preserve home-ownership by partnering with homeowners struggling to restore and maintain a safe and decent place to live. When basic expenses exceed income month after month, home maintenance is the usual casualty. Years of deferred maintenance can cause a downward spiral of home deterioration and unsafe living conditions.
A Brush with Kindness provides work that includes exterior painting, landscaping and completing minor fence repairs on homes of low-income homeowners.

If you or someone you know needs this type of help, please contact the Habitat office at 805-692-2226 or mail@sbhabitat.org for an eligibility form. 

A Brush with Kindness Home repair this past weekend

This past Saturday, September 8th, a group of volunteers from Vandenberg Air Force Base helped Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County repair the home of a low-income homeowner in Santa Barbara. The home repair was part of Habitat's A Brush with Kindness program.

It was a great day and the group accomplished a lot! Here two photos of volunteers out at the work site.

 

Habitat for Humanity is looking to help out qualified residents of Southern Santa Barbara County with our A Brush With Kindness  program. The  program provides necessary home repairs for homeowners that are unable to make them on their own do to physical or financial limitations. ABWK provides consist of minor exterior repairs, landscaping, and or painting, and are performed by an all-volunteer workforce in just a few days.

If you, or someone you know, needs assistance with home repairs, a preliminary application can be found online. Please fill it out and return it to mail@sbhabitat.org or Habitat for Humanity of SSBC, PO Box 176, Goleta, CA 93116. 

A Brush with Kindness home repair in Goleta

On Saturday, June 10th a group of  Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County volunteers helped repair the mobile home of a single mother in Goleta. 

The project was part of Habitat's "A Brush with Kindness" program which provides exterior home repairs for low-income homeowners unable to make necessary repairs to their homes. 

Over the course of the day volunteers helped replace windows, completed carpentry projects, and helped re-landscape around the house. As a way to say "thank you," the homeowner cooked lunch for all the volunteers. 

It was a wonderful day of neighbors helping neighbors. Thank you to all who joined Habitat at this home repair in Goleta!

If you or someone you know needs A Brush with Kindness, please fill out the Preliminary Checklist and return it to mail@sbhabitat.org or Habitat for Humanity, PO Box 176, Goleta, CA 93117