Columbia County
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CCHFH is a
locally run affiliate of
Habitat for Humanity
International, a
nonprofit, ecumenical Christian
housing organization. Habitat
for Humanity International seeks
to eliminate poverty housing and
homelessness from the world, and
to make decent shelter a matter
of conscience and action.
Habitat for
Humanity builds and renovates
houses in partnership with
volunteers and families in need,
regardless of their ethnic or
religious background. The houses
then are sold to those in need
at no profit and with no
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Building Friendships and New
Homes
for Families in Our Community!
This year we start our 10th home on Mill
Street.
A
Habitat ReStore and its benefit to
Columbia County
A
Habitat ReStore is a retail outlet with
quality used and surplus building materials that
are sold at a fraction of retail/normal price.
The materials sold at the ReStore are usually
donated from building supply stores,
contractors, demotion crews and home owners.
Why a ReStore?
It will raise funds for Columbia County Habitat
so that it can continue to build new houses
within its community. This represents a
significant new revenue stream.
It helps our environment by rechanneling goods,
and recycling usable materials.
It will provide an outlet for affordable goods
for low income homeowners who want to make home
improvements.
It will provide an opportunity for partner
families to do some ”sweat equity” outside the
build season.
A Re Store is a win-win program… it supports
resources management to save our Planet and
helps Habitat generate more financial resources
to build more houses and to ensure that everyone
in our community has a decent home.
2008 Projects
Traditional Build & Women Build Side-by-Side
Click here for pictures
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Volunteers
provide most of the labor, and individual and
corporate donors provide money and materials to
build Habitat houses. Partner families
themselves invest hundreds of hours of labor -
'sweat equity' - into building their homes and
the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go
into a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used
to build more houses.
Please click here to email us with any questions
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