Habitat For Humanity Montgomery County, PA - Love In Action Tour
During the quest to add a little more meaning to daily life and give something back, I decided to go to the Love in Action Tour a the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Habitat For Humanity (chapter?). My grandfather has always been a big supporter and fan of Habitat For Humanity and I’ve given them donations in his name in the past. Like most organizations these days, it seems that once you give them a donation they spend everything you’ve given them filling your mailbox with junk mail that just ends up in a landfill. Habitat did just that and I asked them to stop sending me anything.
By working on a job site directly, you know exactly where your donation goes because you just team up with a variety of people and build a place or maybe start out cleaning things up or landscaping. At the Montgomery County Habitat for Humanity organization, you start out by going to a “Love in Action Tour”, learn a little bit about Habitat For Humanity, what it is, what it isn’t how it operates, who gets homes and what they expect of volunteers.
Habitat is designed to promote ownership and involvement. They create or rehab nice but fairly basic homes that the recipients pay for in both money and sweat equity. The new owners of the homes built must volunteer 200 hours (about 25 work days) of time working on Habitat For Humanity Projects, must be responsible, must have an income and have to pay for their own homes. The requirements for getting a Habitat home in Montgomery County are on the local website if you are interested in more information.
Habitat operates all over the world and it is great to have a local Habitat chapter so close to home working to improve the community. Aside from the personal satisfaction of giving back the to the community, Habitat helps to build and ecourage teamwork, build construction skills and meet new people from all walks of life.
Right now, the Montgomery County chapter of Habitat is working on a number of projects in Norristown, PA, Pottstown, PA and Upper Dublin. We walked through the current project in Norristown where some of the homes are almost compete. They’ve got 2-3 bedrooms, a porch, a nice new sidewalk out around the homes and will have kitchen appliances and optional washer/dryer setups.
A Habitat house in Montgomery County, PA requires $80,000 - $100,000 in capital to build. The amount of work actually done by Habitat depends on the expertise of the volunteers available for the project. Things like installing sewer and water setups, pouring concrete and other specialty tasks may be contracted out to local professionals so that the work is done right.
If you are in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and are interested in volunteering for Habitat For Humanity there are guidelines posted for guidelines for individual Habitat volunteers, Habitat group volunteersкомпютри, and Habitat corporate volunteers. Depending on your skills and what you want to do, there are various ways you can volunteer. You can be a construction volunteer, an office volunteer or a commitee volunteer. The different types of Habitat For Humanity volunteer opportunities are available on the local website.
If you are in Montgomery County, Pensylvania and interested in a great volunteer opportunity and want to make a differenence in the community, head over to the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Habitat For Humanity website, learn mopre and signup for a “Love In Action Tour” today!
