Habitat for Humanity's Women Build Week Commences

Habitat for Humanity’s “Women Build” began Tuesday, July 15th. The event “From the Glamour to the Hammer Awards Luncheon and Fashion Show” was held leading up to the Women Build to help raise funds to assist more families in need. Women Build week celebrates the ability women have to fight poverty housing by nurturing, recruiting and training other women to build decent, healthy and affordable homes. The volunteers pound nails, frame walls, raise roofs and create hope through the work done in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. The Women Build event will run until Saturday, July 19th between 9am and 3pm daily at multiple locations in Monmouth County, NJ. 

“There has been a lot of rebuilding taking place in our shore communities since Sandy, but we are not done yet,” said Nancy Doran, board president Habitat for Humanity in Monmouth County. “Our Women Build event highlights the efforts that women in particular are making to meet the many housing needs in our county.”

“Rebuilding lives is what all of our volunteers for Habitat help to do everyday,” said Habitat for Humanity in Monmouth County Executive Director Ray Gabler. “Because of the generosity of so many people, many lives have been changed for the better in our community.”

Habitat in Monmouth has assisted nearly 90 families to date. Nearly eighteen months after Superstorm Sandy housing and recovery issues continue. The Morris family home that was partially built in New York Times Square is one of the homes receiving additional work during Women Build week.

Women Build is Habitat for Humanity’s program for women who want to learn construction skills and build homes and communities. This program brings together women from all walks of life to address the housing crisis facing millions of women and children worldwide. Women Build projects are regularly held by Habitat affiliates across the United States, and by Habitat organizations around the world. Women at these builds have further Habitat’s home-building mission by helping to construct more than 1,900 houses.

As the underwriter of Habitat's Women Build® program since 2004, Lowe's has brought women together to support the nationwide initiative that challenges women to devote at least one day to help eliminate poverty housing. Lowe's how-to clinics have put hammers in the hands of thousands of women, teaching them construction skills and empowering them to be part of the solution by building homes with partner families. In June, over a dozen women participated in this year's clinic at Lowe's in Eatontown.