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Toolin Tour postponed
We hope to schedule the Toolin Tour for the fall of 2020. Please stay tuned for updates.
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Aitkin County Habitat for Humanity
New family for Aitkin home
Kara, of Aitkin, and her two children, are the new partner family for the 2020 home in Aitkin. She works at the Crosby Hospital.
Toolin Tour
Our Toolin Tour Committee is still looking at a September date for our motorcycle ride. Stay tuned
Sponsors
Sponsors and donors who have signed on so far include:
David Scott, Marli Danielson, and Viking Group.
218-927-5656
214 First Avenue NW Aitkin, MN 56431
Volunteer or donate for 2020 home
The 2020 home will be built at 218 Minnesota Avenue South in Aitkin. This is right on Hwy. 169 near Riley Auto Parts and
Aitkin Health Services. Look for our construction trailer parked on the lot.
Please become a donor, volunteer or building committee member. Contractors, we encourage you to bid on the project and
we request your donations of professional labor, tools and equipment. The homeowner will need a mentor and babysitters
for her children. Breakfast, lunch or coffee break food would be welcome from the builders.
Call 218.927.5656 to help or email annschwartz@habitatforhumanityaitkincounty.org
. Building Homes With Partner Families
Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates alongside our homeowner (partner) families. Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor (sweat equity) into building their Habitat house and the houses of others. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans. The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses.
About Habitat for Humanity International
Founded in Americus, Georgia, USA in 1976, Habitat for Humanity today operates around the globe and has helped build, renovate and repair more than 600,000 decent, affordable houses sheltering more than 3 million people worldwide. Aitkin County Habitat For Humanity (HFH) is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing organization.
ABWK
Habitat for Humanity’s A Brush with Kindness is an exterior home preservation service that offers painting, landscaping, weather stripping and minor repair services for homeowners in need. ABWK helps low-income homeowners impacted by age, disability and family circumstances, who struggle to maintain the exterior of their homes, reclaim their homes with pride and dignity.
Homeownership Training
The primary goal of the Habitat for Humanity homeowner/homebuyer education is to provide families with the skills necessary to become successful homeowners. One of the most important responsibilities of the Family Support committee is to develop a thorough and accessible homebuyer readiness education program. Homebuyer education is a core sweat-equity requirement of the affiliate’s agreement with the family.