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1/4/2014: ABWK through Sweat Equity
Three future Habitat for Humanity Riverside homeowners and one very new homeowner with family and friends worked on a home of a Riverside couple this past Saturday on A Brush With Kindness project to fulfil their sweat equity. Sweat Equity is volunteer time required as part of the down payment towards the purchase of a Habitat home. […]
AmeriCorps National Member Experience: Azhar Khan
New Partnerships Since my last web blog post in September of 2013, I have been in the process of completing many more of my objectives. Daniel, Jenna (AmeriCorps Members), Christine (NRI Manager) and I have established a few partnerships in the community. The first was enacted because a resident from the focus neighborhood expressed her […]
12/14/13: Old Plantation Critical Home Repair Project
Often Habitat Riverside gets involved in projects that involve much more than a simple volunteer day to fix up the exterior of a home. Such was the case a couple of weeks ago when we got a call from Riverside County Supervisor Tavaglione’s office about an elderly man, Larry, who lives in the Old Plantation […]
11/30/13: UCR Global Water Brigades & Our Habitat Families Hard At Work During the Holidays
While many of us were recuperating from the Thanksgiving holiday and empty wallets from Black Friday, our homeowners and members from UCR Global Water Brigades were awake and ready to spruce up a mobile home at Rancho Caballero Mobile Home Park. Despite the nippy weather, our volunteers showed up armed and ready with their paint […]
11/27/13: Painting the Painter’s Home
“Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.” Josias and Leona Robinson are a senior couple living in the Riverside Village Mobile Home Park in the city of Riverside. The Robinsons has lived in this home for thirty years and Mr. Robinson is a retired […]
11/26/13: Ramona HS Students were busy bees on a mission!
Ramona High School students dedicated some of their Thanksgiving break to help two Riversiders this past Tuesday. About 20 students donated their time to help Ed and Dorothy who are low income seniors dealing with medical issues due to their age and a car accident. Like most seniors trying to make ends meet while living on […]
11/16/13: Kaiser’s Big Paint Day With the Help of Delta Sigma Pi!
The saying, “it takes a village” rang true this past Saturday. Kaiser Permanente employees partnered with Habitat for Humanity, Riverside for the 5th year, wrapping up four mobile homes with all new paint jobs. Village Riverside Mobile Home Park was where 58 Kaiser volunteers gathered to help four families in touching up their homes, but they […]
11/11/13: How Wells Fargo Celebrates Veterans Day!
Mr. Silva, Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War applied to the City for help with issues with his roof leaking in his mobile home through the City’s Mobile Home Repair Grant program. His bed and some of the interior walls and flooring were ruined in the process and he was sleeping on a chair […]
11/09/13: UCR Habitat Chapter Can’t Stay Away From Donating Their Time
For the second time in less than a month the UCR Habitat Chapter partnered with Habitat for Humanity Riverside to paint the home of Remedies and Don Jose. The couple lives in Village Riverside mobile home park located at the west end of Riverside. Their home which they purchased about four years ago was in […]
11/05/13: A Job Well Done by RCC Spectrum
On Tuesday, seven students from Riverside Community College Spectrum Group as part of their small group communication class took on the challenge to paint the home of Charles. Charles and his son have resided in the Santiago Estates Mobile Home Park in Riverside for several years. He recently had a stroke that left him temporarily disabled. […]
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