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Our busiest build season is fast approaching, and as it does, we’re busy planning how we can build more homes than ever before, and over the next five years, double the number we have built to this day.
That’s another 2,000 Canadian families’ lives transformed by a safe and affordable home by 2017. An ambitious goal, and to reach it, we need your help! Get involved with your local affiliate, consider donating funds to help us access land to build on, take your unwanted home décor items or construction materials to one of our ReStores, and as always, continue to spread the word about Habitat and the work you help us do!
Habitat for Humanity Canada
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In This Issue:
Father and Daughters
Build a Home Overseas
Don't Dump It,
Donate It!
Read About What
"Home” Means
To Them
Canadians Volunteered
Enough Time in 2010
to Build 375,000
Habitat Homes! |
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Jonathan Hamelin, Regina Leader-Post
 While breaking down concrete with pickaxes, shovelling out dirt to make trenches, mixing concrete with shovels, carrying five-gallon buckets of water and concrete and lifting bricks, Mark Stefan and his daughter Nicole bonded.
It seems like an uncommon father-daughter bonding activity, and indeed it is. From Feb. 17-25, the Stefans were among six father-daughter duos that travelled to El Salvador and started building a home in the municipality of San Vicente. The trip was run through Habitat for Humanity's Global Village program, and the organization notes the father-daughter twist had never been done before.
Read more |
Volunteer with Global
Village for a summer
you’ll never forget!
Ethiopia, June 2 – 12
India, July 1 – 11
Portugal, July 8 – 15
Guatemala, July 21 – 29 |
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We’ll turn your e-waste into Habitat homes
 Do you have old, broken appliances and electronics in your house? If you live in Ontario, free up space by disposing of your e-Waste in an earth-friendly, Habitat-friendly way by donating them to one of 22 ReStores.
Working in partnership with the Ontario Electronic Stewardship program, select ReStores are providing an eco-friendly way to recycle over 185 different household appliances and electronics. Recyclable items range from televisions and computers to hair driers and humidifiers, and proceeds help build affordable housing in your community.
Click here for a list of accepted items and participating ReStores. |
Did you know:
In 2011, Canadian ReStores diverted about 21,800 tons of material from Canadian landfills, as much of what is donated and resold – customer returns, unused building materials, and no longer wanted home items – would otherwise have been thrown out.
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The 5th Anniversary Meaning of Home Book is Now Available!
 For the Meaning of Home’s 5th Anniversary, Genworth Financial has published five years of heartwarming winning entries in a commemorative book, which is being sold with all proceeds going towards Habitat build projects in communities across Canada.
Order your copy today!
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"Every day I would walk to the river and stand at the edge getting water in my bucket. Then I would walk all the way home with the bucket on my head so I could use the water to wash clothes, faces, dishes and give water to plants… In Ethiopia most girls stay at home and let their brothers go to school. There was a lot of love in my family but I was having a hard life.”
A touching passage from Edie Schnell’s 2011 grand prize winning entry, where she compares her adopted Calgary home to the one she came from in Ethiopia.
Read Edie’s entire winning entry |
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Results have just been released from the 2010 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, painting a picture of the support Canadians gave to charities and nonprofits from 2007-2010.
 For 2010, it was found that:
- 84% of Canadians aged 15+ collectively donated $10.6 billion to charitable and nonprofit organizations.
- 47% of Canadians aged 15+ contributed 2.1 billion volunteer hours to charities and nonprofits. To add perspective, that would be enough hours to frame, shingle and finish 375,000 Habitat homes!
Thanks to everyone who has contributed their time, and money, to Habitat for Humanity in Canada since 1985.
More results from the Statistics Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating. |
To build 2,000 homes for low-income Canadian families, we’ve welcomed the efforts of over 300,000 volunteers, who have spent 11.2 million hours hammering 35.4 million nails, screwing in 56,000 light bulbs, installing 3,000 toilets, 5,000 sinks, 24,000 windows and 36,000 doors, and applying 80,000 gallons of paint to help transform the houses into homes.
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