Orange County Habitat for Humanity, VA

Orange County Habitat for Humanity has temporarily stopped accepting applications for Habitat houses in Orange County. The closing is temporary and is predicated on the large number of current applicants and the lack of available houses.

Cars for Homes

Cars for Homes is Habitat for Humanity’s vehicle donation program. All donations from Orange County residents will go to help build homes in Orange County. Call the Cars for Homes toll free number, 1-877-277-4344, or visit www.carsforhomes.org to donate cars, trucks, boats, RVs, motorcycles, airplanes or other motorized vehicles. You will be sent an acknowledgement and all the forms required by the IRS regulations. Even if your vehicle doesn’t run it can still be an important donation ~ vehicles are the most heavily recycled consumer product. Call today to get rid of that old car, help build a home for a needy family and get another 2007 tax deduction.

URGENT!
MAKE A DONATION NOW!

May, 2008, OCHFH
Board Meeting Minutes.

Register NOW! Shop and Share is an easy way to help OCHFH raise funds if you shop at Food Lion and use their MVP Card. Go to www.foodlion.com and click on the Lion Shop And Share link on the left. Designate Rapidan Habitat (they do not have our new name yet) in Orange, VA, as your non-profit. Each time you shop a portion will be donated to OCHFH. Thanks to those the chose us.

Click here to see how you can get a discount on quality Sherwin-Williams paints and help OCHFH at the same time.

Meet some
Habitat families.

Habitat for Humanity is a Christian organization that brings people from all beliefs and backgrounds together to

build houses in partnership with people in need. People of many different beliefs demonstrate their faith by working together to build. People of faith can support the work of Habitat through prayer, making lunches, offering devotions, raising funds and providing labor for house building.

Orange County Habitat for Humanity received its first charter in 1992. In its first decade, 14 families were helped to realize their dream of owning their own house. Our Mission and Plan

Orange County Habitat for Humanity is a Christian organization partnering with low-income families to help provide them safe, decent and affordable housing. Homes are built using volunteer labor and donated materials when possible. All partner families put in sweat equity working on their homes and the homes of others, as well as working for the betterment of the community. Homes built by Habitat for Humanity are then sold at 0% interest to the partner families. The donated labor and materials help keep the cost of their houses in the affordable range.

Partner families are given a hand up, not a hand out. You can help Habitat and help alleviate poverty housing by making a donation of cash, goods or services to Orange County Habitat for Humanity. You may even help yourself if your donation qualifies for tax credits.

VOLUNTEERS CORNER

Reach out to helping the qualified, needy families in Orange County by VOLUNTEERING your time and skills in continuing the Habitat mission.

You say “ I do not know how to do that”? Give us a call (540-672-5401)or send us an email (OCHFH@OCHFH.org ) – maybe we can help you “learn how to do that”.

For all the information on Habitat for Humanity International check out http://www.habitat.org/

Since its founding in 1976 Habitat has built more than 175,000 houses around the world, providing more than 750,000 people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter. Habitat is a nonprofit Christian housing ministry that works to both eliminate poverty housing around the world and to make adequate housing a matter of conscience and action. People from all walks of life work in partnership to build houses with families in need.

The need for decent housing in America and around the world is staggering. An estimated 25% of the world's population---over a billion people--live in poor housing or have no housing at all. Families are trapped in a daily struggle to survive amid substandard, often inhuman living conditions. Habitat believes that all people deserve a simple, decent place to live on terms they can afford to pay.

Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit, financed with affordable, no-interest loans. The homeowners' monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses.

Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and the monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor -- sweat equity -- into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.