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Women get busy constructing Habitat house
Volunteer project in Milton kicks off International Women Build Week
With another Milton Habitat for Humanity house construction project in the background, volunteers work on the floor foundation of a second house to start Women Build Week. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
March 6, 2020
The sound of hammers and saws filled the air in the Pine Street area of Milton March 4 at the start of International Women Build Week.
Volunteers started a four-month building project constructing a new home for a single mother and her two children. During the construction process, Sussex County Habitat for Humanity and Lowe’s will provide volunteers and tools for the project. This will be the sixth house built by women volunteers in Sussex County.
Prior to strapping on tool belts, more than 60 volunteers participated in Habitat’s Women Build Program over the past year, which included seven home-building clinics led by female volunteers, said Katie Millard, Habitat director of development and advocacy.
A large crew of volunteers from Sussex County Habitat for Humanity and Lowe’s get started on a house-construction project done by local women.
Tama Viola of Rehoboth Beach checks a floor joist as volunteers get busy early March 4.
Crew leader Susan Cunningham of Milford steadies a board as Laura Lund of Milton cuts it.
Habitat and Lowe’s volunteers apply good old-fashioned muscle power with hammers and nails.
Another house adjacent to the women build house is being constructed by Habitat ReStore volunteers.
Volunteers move plywood in to start covering the floor joists. Another Habitat build is behind them.
Habitat volunteer leader Mary Rossettini has her hands full.
