Sep 30, 2010
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| TNG-CWA Local 36047 members from the St. Louis Post Dispatch spent Saturday Sept. 25 helping Habitat for Humanity build a house for a woman and her six year old daughter. Pictured on the ladders are Dawn Majors, left, and Amanda Latham. From left to right are Shannon Duffy, local business representative; and TNG-CWA members Greg Jonsson, Reagan Branham, Jennifer Selph, Sean Sullivan, J.B. Forbes, and Colleen Schrappen. |
Members of TNG-CWA Local 36047 in St. Louis spent last Saturday working on a Habitat for Humanity house that will soon be a real home for a single mother and her six year old daughter.
The 1,600-square-foot house is one of 10 Habitat homes under construction in a neighborhood where 10 more homes were recently completed. Nine Guild members from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch volunteered their time, working alongside the woman who is buying the home. Habitat homes are sold at no profit and financed with affordable loans, and buyers put in hundreds of hours of sweat equity.
"They have professionals there to train you," Local Business Representative Shannon Duffy said. "We were working on flooring, closet shelves and we put a kind of an overhang over the patio. It's a very life-affirming experience. It makes you feel good about humanity."
Duffy said Guild members want to buy the new homeowner a tree for her yard and also are planning a "Trivia Night," a popular St. Louis activity, to raise funds for Habitat projects.
Learn more and find out how your local can get involved at www.habitat.org.
