The tapping of hammers started at 7:08am. A brief break in the noise and the first wall was up by 7:45am. By 11am, all exterior and interior walls were up and volunteers were breaking for the day. Not even half the day was gone and a few volunteers could tell others they raised some wall […]
Big thanks to New Beginnings Community Church in Norco, The Community Foundation Youth Grantmakers and two wonderful homeowners who worked side by side with the volunteers to paint the exterior of two units at King Arthur Mobile Home Park in Riverside on Saturday. One of the homeowners even went out and picked up donuts to […]
It was a fun and eco-friendly afternoon at the Western Municipal Water District’s ‘Earth Night in the Garden’. Children squealed with glee as Pam the Ladybug Lady ‘released’ handfuls of ladybugs into the gathering by the thousands. There were crafts, composting demonstrations and even free tomato plants and kettlecorn! The Habitat for Humanity Riverside & […]
Habitat for Humanity Riverside was lucky to participate in Community Connect’s 15th Annual Volunteer Recognition Banquet by nominating two volunteers this year. Debi Bagley, who was unable to attend the banquet, has been a volunteer with Habitat Riverside since 2004. She is also very involved with Riverside’s Rape Crisis Center. She serves on Habitat Riverside’s […]
Hot day, hot group! What a HUGE difference we made yesterday at Countrywood Estates in Corona. Thanks to a small but mighty group of volunteers from Kaiser Corona and Kaiser Fontana together with a few loyal Helping Hands regulars we completely painted the exterior of unit #26. The homeowner, Jesus Hernandez helped us get set […]
Sometimes Habitat Riverside has unusual requests for our volunteers. They show up and do extraordinary work. We held a small dirt party at our new build, Crestmore. Volunteers literally strengthened the foundation for a new Habitat home by shoveling and packing dirt against the cement slab. Thanks to the 3 volunteers and 2 Habitat family […]
What a great work day at Countrywood in Corona on Tuesday the 10th! A team from the Young Professionals Network (Real Estate Professionals) volunteered for Helping Hands. With the threat of storms last week, we were concerned about getting done quickly to let the units dry before any rain hit so we sent out a […]
Thanks to Living Way Christian Fellowship in Moreno Valley and some of our loyal members of the Habitat Chapter at UCR we were able to help two homeowners in the Santiago Mobile Home Park in Moreno Valley on Saturday April 7th. We had about 18 people working on homeowner Anne Warren’s unit which needed a […]
Once again our loyal volunteers showed up in full force for a project in the Santiago Mobile Home Park in Moreno Valley last Friday. We painted a unit belonging to a family who is surviving on disability income after the father was declared permanently disabled due to an injury. He had already spent several months […]
Red shirt Wells Fargo volunteers attack! What does 160 years mean for Wells Fargo in the Inland Empire to Habitat for Humanity Riverside? It means Habitat Riverside gets another volunteer work force out on one of our most needed projects. De La Vista needed volunteers desperately, and Wells Fargo answered the call. Volunteers planted trees, […]
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