Communications Manager – Page 4 – Habitat For Humanity Sunshine Coast BC

Youth Can Help Habitat

Wondering what you, a teen with no cash but a lot of desire & energy, can do to help? Here are some valuable ways to make a big difference: Volunteer to do landscaping and painting trim for Habitat homes. Organize a local penny drive at your school, church, or clubs. Make up your own fundraiser (car wash, bake sale, charity formal) and offer the proceeds to your local affiliate. Offer your service to your local affiliate office where ever they need help the most – stuffing envelopes, sweeping the floor, counting nails… whatever! Collect returnables & recyclables from your neighbourhood and deliver them to the Habitat Kiosk at the local …

Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast Launches Development of 14 Affordable Homes

Introducing “Sunshine Coast Village”, a new community of affordable housing for low income families, currently being developed by Habitat for Humanity Sunshine Coast volunteers and partners. Sunshine Coast Village is an exciting project, and a considerable step up from the construction of individual homes or a single duplex). The project represents a significant dent in the number of families now living in sub-standard housing on the Coast and will show how the affordable housing crisis can be addressed one home and one family at a time. Located on a two-acre site on the south side of Highway 101 between Wilson Creek and Davis Bay (west of the old Mazda dealership …

RBC Foundation Donates $15,000 to HFHSC

Gibsons BC – Thursday May 6, 2010 The RBC Foundation supports initiatives that empower organizations to make a difference and support others. Funding and donations are intended to create social and economic opportunities that strengthen health and well-being in communities where they do business. In the photo L-R, Gibsons Branch Manager Sarah Bonkoff, HFHSC Deborah Pepper, HFHSC Executive Director Ron Pepper, Laima Van Turnhout and Robert McDonald were onhand as Sechelt RBC Branch Manager Jason Jenkins presened a check for $15,000 to HFHSC Board Chair Gwen Hawkins. The funding will be used for the latest duplex being built in the Sunshine Coast Village project in Wilson Creek, which will ultimately …

Contractors Invited to Support Sunshine Coast Village

Habitat For Humanity Sunshine Coast has embarked on a major new project, the Sunshine Coast Village in Wilson Creek, that will provide fourteen new affordable homes, two per year, over the next seven years for low income families in our community. Without affordable housing there is no future on the Sunshine Coast for single parents and families with low incomes. Together with our community partners we can help. Since 2007 Habitat For Humanity Sunshine Coast has completed one home in Gibsons and two additional homes, a duplex, in Sechelt. However, building affordable homes in this market is not easy. The rising cost of real estate, materials and labour makes it …