Inspiring events have taken place in the humble county of Bladen, NC. Today, Habitat for Humanity, has chosen three eligible residents of Bladenboro, NC to receive their first homes in the community of Home Springs Village.
These citizens, who otherwise would not have possessed the opportunity to purchase their own home, will receive a place to call their own thanks to the work of volunteers from Habitat for Humanity–and, most of all, thanks to their own hard work.
Habitat for Humanity is creating Home Springs Village from scratch. Its volunteers will eventually erect a cluster of 16 houses, plus a community playground and picnic area, on Hickory Street, in Bladenboro. Some of the volunteers are people from the community, members of service groups operating out of local churches and schools. These volunteers will work side-by-side with the home’s future owners. The volunteers will perform such tasks as building the house’s frames, or preparing and mounting the sheetrock that will provide its occupants with protection from the elements.
Those who benefit from the services of Habitat for Humanity will not be receiving their homes for free. In addition to laboring on their home’s construction, the Habitat for Humanity beneficiaries will have to pay for their homes in their own hard-earned cash. What Habitat for Humanity will do, however, is to provides its beneficiaries with a zero-interest loan, to be repaid by the new homeowners over the course of 20 years. The homeowners will have to make each of their monthly payments in a timely manner, plus learn about money management via a series of mandatory teaching sessions.
Kizzie Brown and Tracey Ross, two of the three new homeowners chosen by Habitat for Humanity to reside in the Hope Springs Village Community, were both elated by the prospect of owning, and paying for, homes of their own.
“I was overwhelmed and I’m still elated,” declared Brown, as she hammered nails into Kizzie Ross’s future residence.
“I find it a privilege and an honor to be one of the ones chosen to become a homeowner,” said Ross, as she, in her turn, worked to build the home that would eventually belong to Brown.
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