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Women take charge at Habitat |
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
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Local women carried out duties usually left to men last Saturday when they pounded nails and raised walls to build a Habitat for Humanity house.  Local women and girls went to work last week participating in National Women Build Week through a joint effort by Habitat for Humanity and Lowe’s. In the front are, from left, Jennifer Watson, Marybeth Allinson, Brittney Revas, Codye Revas, Clarissa Jacobs, Karlee Gavin and Rachel Blazer. In the back are, from left, Sharon Prickett, Ginger Allinson, Donna Bosley, Wendy Beverleigh, Jeanne Fetting, Michelle Blair, Kathy Fohn, Sandra Revas, Sandy Anderson, Betty Smith, Selena Ellis, Marie Duke and Lisa Thornton. The home is for Sandra Revas and ’s being built in Partnership Village on West Woodlawn in Benton.
The Saline County build was part of the nationwide Habitat initiative with Lowe’s to encourage women to volunteer and build affordable housing.
National Women Build Week took place May 4-10.
“Actually, men weren’t excluded” in the local build, Saline County Habitat executive director Karma Herzfeld said. “But we were focusing on women this week, staffing the majority of Saturday’s volunteer crew with women from our area.
“Sandra Revas and her daughters, Brittney and Codye-Lynn, who will be the Habitat partner family for this particular house, were out here building as well.”
“More than 12 million US children live in poverty,” said Larry D. Stone, Lowe’s president and chairman of the Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation. “We believe the week leading up to Mother’s Day provided a wonderful opportunity to showcase the accomplishments of Lowe’s and Habitat’s women volunteers.” |
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