D7150 Utica Area Clubs Sponsor Habitat for Humanity Home

Why This Project: Oneida County Habitat for Humanity President Tom O'Hara and Utica Rotary Club President Don Reese are collaborating on making a dream come true for Jeannette Fardan and her family in West Utica, NY, on a lot donated to Habitat by the Dabrowski Family.

The following D7150 Clubs: Utica Rotary, North Utica Rotary, Greater Utica Sunrise Rotary, and Oriskany-Whitestown Rotary are Sponsors of this house, culminating in a dream Utica Rotary President Don Reese had when he took office in July of 1999.

Partner family Jeannette Fardan currently lives in Utica, working two jobs to support her family. She will have her son and her niece and nephew living with her in her new house. They are already hard at work on their "sweat equity" and are excited to be working with the many Habitat volunteers. It is anticipated that the family will be able to move into their new home by mid-July, 2000.

About Oneida County HFH: Formed in 1990 by David & Joyce Wilbur, OC HFH builds or rehabilitates homes throughout the county with the help of the future homeowner or partner family. The local Habitat volunteers -- led by President Tom O'Hara, Head Builder Tom Rondeau, and Resource Coordinator Al Cavo -- to find the property, locate community volunteers, interview and choose the Partner family, get the blueprints drawn, assign the teams and the tasks, and begin the project.

Current Committees are: Building, Campus Chapter & Youth Programs, Church Relations, Communications, Family Partnership, Family Selection, Finance, Fund Raising, Nomination, Public Relations, Site Selection, Volunteers.

Oneida County HFH plans on building two homes in 2000 and two in 2001. You can put your love for your community and for your faith in action by volunteering. Information and applications are available at the Habitat office by calling 315-733-9375. They guarantee you can't beat the love you receive and the homemade cookies they share!

What Is Habitat for Humanity? Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate homelessness and poverty housing from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.

Habitat has built more than 85,000 houses around the world, providing more than 425,000 people in more than 2,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter. HFHI was founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife Linda. Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families.

Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit, financed with affordable, no-interest loans. The homeowners' monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses. Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and the monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor - sweat equity - into building their Habitat house and houses of others.

Habitat for Humanity's work is accomplished at the community level by affiliates -- independent, locally run, nonprofit organizations. Each affiliate coordinates all aspects of Habitat home building in its local area -- fund raising, building site selection, partner family selection and support, house construction and mortgage servicing.

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