Today we dragged our busted office fridge to the dumpster.* Why? Because it’s far cheaper to get a new appliance than fix an old one. Redemtech is fed up with this culture of waste. Redemtech refurbishes large volumes of PCs from businesses around the world. They have committed to providing refurbished computers for 10,000 Habitat [...]
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Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco has introduced a new program to help serve communities beyond the footprint of a single-family home. The Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative (NRI), made possible through a significant grant of $425,000 from the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation, is an integral part of Habitat Greater SF’s recently-completed 2020 Vision. With a goal [...]
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Fifteen years ago, a San Francisco family moved into their home on Van Dyke Avenue – they were the first Habitat family of San Francisco and eager to leave the violence of their past neighborhood behind. “I didn’t want my boys to grow up in fear,” said Angela, a mother of three. A decade later, [...]
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Three homes in East Palo Alto and Belle Haven were in foreclosure when Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco acquired them last year as part of its Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) and began renovations to curb the neighborhood blight. Today, not only is the blight gone, but three families are now becoming homeowners and creating [...]
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Midway through the week, a “cultural exchange” was organized with the Youth Union of the People’s Committee of Hiep Duc. This was somewhat ironic since our entire week seemed to be one big cultural exchange, from the choreographed dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” that some of the folks in our group performed that night, to [...]
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Every day when we arrive on the construction site, the first thing we do is retrieve the tools and supplies from the existing homes of the future homeowners, Thi Thi Hoa at house #1 and Vo Thi Sau at house #2 (Hoa and Sau). The tools are stored there since there is no security or [...]
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Working on the construction site is slow going. The high temperatures (and our capable hosts) require us to take frequent breaks to avoid becoming ill from the extreme heat. We are a hardy group, but the heat can bring even the strongest down quickly during the peak hours of the day, we are told. For [...]
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