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The concept is simple. Habitat for Humanity helps build affordable homes for lower income families in our community. It's not a "something for nothing" program. Habitat families are good people, who purchase their homes through a no-interest real estate mortgage, make monthly payments, have put sweat equity into building the homes, and take care of them while living there.
Neighbor helping neighbor in it's purest form...building homes and rebuilding entire neighborhoods.
Over the past twenty plus years, Topeka Habitat for Humanity has built over sixty homes in Topeka, with the help of people just like you.
We're building several right now, and we need to build many more. But we need YOUR help.
Help with labor. Help with money. Help with materials. Help with land. Help anyway you can.
The average cost of a three bedroom Habitat for Humanity home in Topeka is now about $70,000. Monetary donations are our lifeblood. Part of each dollar given gets used over and over again as we build each new home. Stocks and other securities, or a long term pledge are another way to keep the partnership going. All such donations offer you tax savings.
If you want to give toward a specific purchase, you can tell us what you want your donation to purchase. For example:
* Sheetrock $4,000 * Carpet $2,500
* Furnace $2,150 * Insulation $1,500 * Kitchen cabinets $2,500
* Bathroom Fixtures $1,250 * Water Meter $980 * Roofing $1,800
* Guttering $300 * Front Door $300 * Sidewalks $750
* Big Window $350 * Small Window $150 *
* Vinyl Flooring $1,050 * Outside Paint $350
The materials and tools needed to renovate or build homes range from small nails to big power equipment. If you have such items as the ones listed below, and you can donate them, please call the Topeka Habitat office.
* Lumber * Windows * Insulation * Siding * Hardware * Doors
* Light Fixtures * Plumbing Fixtures * Electrical Supplies * Tarpaulins
* Caulking * Power Tools * Roofing Shingles * Hand Tools
* Work Gloves * Safety Goggles
If you feel strongly about making a bigger impact on the Topeka community, now and in the future, it is possible for you to act through a trust or a will. As long as there are people in need, Topeka Habitat for Humanity will continue its mission to provide decent, affordable housing. Your contribution in the form of a planned gift can help us well into the future.
Dear Volunteer: Habitat for Humanity International lives with the goal of eliminating substandard housing in our world. Habitat has built more than 225,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1 million people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent, affordable shelter. Topeka Habitat has renovated or built over 60 houses since we began in 1984. Are there fewer sub-standard homes in our city today? I don't know. I can guarantee there are still families living in poor housing. We can do something about that!
How can you help? You can join the Topeka affiliate of Habitat for Humanity in building new homes for deserving families in our community. Our work events typically take place on Saturdays or Sundays. You can take part in a single event or sign up for as many as you wish. There are no special skills required.
Topeka Habitat provides a very easy to use web site for its volunteers. Click on the "Volunteer Now" button on this page and set up your profile. Every work event will be posted on this site with the number of volunteers needed. Simply sign back into the volunteer website to select which events you would like to work. An email confirmation will be sent as well as a reminder prior to the event.
Volunteers can participate in all phases of building a home, framing, exterior sheeting, interior finishing, painting, landscaping, etc. You will experience the joy of working side by side with the new home-owner family in building their new home. It is a unique satisfaction to take part in creating something that will have a lasting effect on this family and their future generations.
If you would like to volunteer in other ways to help Habitat, please complete the "General Volunteer Form" and send to the address provided on the form.
Please volunteer today to become part of the Habitat for Humanity mission to provide safe, decent, affordable housing for deserving families in our community.
Thank you,
Jerry Billinger
Topeka Habitat for Humanity - Volunteer Coordinator
Topeka Habitat provides a very convenient online site to register as a volunteer and select which events you would like to participate in to become part of the Habitat home-building team.
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You will be asked to set up your own volunteer profile and then you can come back to this volunteer site at any time to check on new events. It is very simple and let's you control your time committment.
If you would like to donate some of your time in other ways or help by making a donation, you may download our General Volunteer Form.
If you prefer, you can sign up by downloading the Construction Volunteer Form. You will be contacted for opportunities to join us in home-building events.
Our Work Crew Safety Manual can be downloaded from the link here.
All volunteers are required to sign a Release and Waiver of Liability form prior to working on a construction site. You can download this form by clicking here.
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