World Habitat Day Fundraiser: Build Hope with Habitat for Humanity
Because everyone deserves a safe and affordable place to live.
Join us in recognizing World Habitat Day (October 7, 2024) by making a difference right here in our local community! Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg is committed to building homes, communities and hope and is working to raise $7,000 on October 7, 2024 in honor of World Habitat Day!
Together, we can transform lives by creating affordable housing for families, and your support is crucial in making this happen!
Why Your Contribution Matters
Every dollar you give helps us build strength, stability and self-reliance through affordable homeownership. Our homebuyers are just that – BUYERS. Habitat for Humanity builds affordable homes in partnership with local families. Homes are purchased with a zero-interest, 20- to 30-year mortgage by families with low to moderate incomes.
In the Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg area, families are working hard to achieve the dream of owning their own homes, but they can’t do it alone.
How You Can Help
Donate Today: Every gift, no matter the size, makes a difference.
The Power of Homeownership
At Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg, we believe that everyone deserves a decent place to live. Owning a home is a powerful tool for breaking the cycle of poverty and building a brighter future. Your support on World Habitat Day helps us build homes, hope and opportunity for families who need it most.
Why Your Support Matters
First-time Habitat Homebuyer Celebrates Final Mortgage Payment
There’s something about your first.
First love. First car. First job. First home.
And then, for a select few, there’s a first life you helped to change.
“Every employee at Habitat can tell you about the first homebuyer they worked with,” said Janet V. Green, Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg’s CEO. “You don’t forget your firsts.”
And for Janet, that was Pearl.
Family Grappling with Loss Finds New Hope in Buying Habitat House
Garcia knew his family needed to move.
They live in a dilapidated, termite-infested home in Charles City County, a house that belongs to his mother-in-law.
It’s a place that holds reminders of his wife, Tina, everywhere.
Tina’s six children were her world. She never missed a school meeting, attended all their doctors’ and dentists’ appointments and raised them in a Richmond church where Garcia is a deacon and minister for a re-entry transitional program for inmates.
“She was always there,” Garcia says softly.
Until the day she wasn’t. Breast cancer metastasized into brain cancer. Tina was just 47 when she died on March 11, 2020.
Army Veteran Grateful to Buy Habitat House That Will Bring Stability to Her Family
Sierra epitomizes hard work.
She joined the Army National Guard at age 20, a transformative opportunity that instilled discipline, time management and communication skills in her over the nine years she served. A pair of layoffs afterward led her to reassess her career path.
Today Sierra, who holds a bachelor’s in human services from Old Dominion University, is a case manager with the City of Hampton, helping those who need SNAP benefits and Medicaid.
Yet, “I really thought home ownership was not going to be in the cards for me.”
That changed when the single mother of two applied to Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg’s First-Time Homebuyer Program.
