Volunteer Stories
Lakeland Habitat appreciates your giving to build homes for those in need. You are changing lives one house at a time!
Volunteer Stories
Whether it's the regular crew volunteer who is on site two days a week or someone serving on the dedications committee helping to plan our wonderful house celebrations, all our volunteers are valuable to our mission.
Rain or shine, volunteers help raise walls and change lives
Volunteers work in the rain Monday to hang siding on the 200,000th house. Volunteers Ross Babbit (foreground) of DIY Network and Robert Hill work on tr Volunteers have worked through rain and blistering sun alike to build Habitat’s 200,000th house, which is the future home of Koffi Kouassi, his wife Tonya Harper and their children. The outpouring of [...]
I like seeing them smile
Will Howell is a crew leader on Habitat’s 200,000th hou Will Howell of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, likes the excitement of blitz builds. They have kept him coming back to volunteer for the past three years, but this one has an extra bonus—the chance to work with Habitat’s milestone 200,000th family. ”I love being involved on the blitz [...]
Everybody Can serve
Terri Adams spent Saturday helping raise the walls on the future home of the Kouassi-Harper family. Terri Adams is working on the home of Koffi Kouassi and Tonya Harper in Knoxville, Tenn., helping complete Habitat for Humanity’s 200,000th house built worldwide. ”We’ve been up there in the sun, pounding away!” she says. As vice president of risk management [...]
Faith In Action
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