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Recent photos from Kirksville Habitat life |
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.Habitat's mission is to eliminate poverty housing from the earth. Habitat has taken its vision of a world with no more shacks to 53 nations. To date, HFHI has completed nearly 60,000 simple, decent, affordable houses around the globe. The Habitat for Humanity International web site contains more information on Habitat's history, mission, volunteer opportunities and contact information for other Habitat affiliates around the world. |
The Kirksville Area
Habitat for Humanity is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity
International, a nonprofit,
ecumenical Christian housing organization. Habitat for Humanity works
in partnership with people in need to build and renovate decent,
affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need at
no profit and with no interest charged.