On Monday, June 7, the First Annual Housatonic Habitat for Humanity Golf Outing was held. Not being a golfer myself (see prior story), I did not play the course, but for those who did, it was a nearly perfect day. There were twenty-six volunteers who got the golfers registered, handed out gift bags that had been donated by sponsors, sold raffle tickets, monitored results, and kept everything moving along smoothly — not an easy task with 120 golfers playing at once. The day was quite successful with net proceeds of more than $50,000. The golf outing proceeds will cover more than half the cost of building a brand new Housatonic Habitat for Humanity home. The goal for subsequent annual golf outings is to be able to finance the construction of a new home every year.
On a global basis, Habitat for Humanity will have cumulatively built more than 200,000 homes by sometime next year. The result is simple, decent housing, for many who would otherwise not be able to afford it. Habitat homes are not giveaways. A Habitat home owner invests at least 300 hours of "sweat equity" during the construction period and makes a monthly mortgage payment (thirty years with no interest). The payments provide funds to build more houses.
- Initial story about the Habitat Golf Outing
- A few pictures from the Golf Outing
