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"To someone who’s never had a home of their own before, a key is precious metal. It opens more than just a door; it opens up a whole new way of life. That’s why Habitat for Humanity is so close to my heart. …Everyone deserves a decent, affordable home, and together we can make that happen." |
About Old Colony Habitat for Humanity
Old Colony Habitat for Humanity is a locally run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing organization. Habitat for Humanity is dedicated to providing decent, affordable housing in partnership with families in need. Reaching across religious, cultural, and racial boundaries, we seek to restore a sense of community with the common goal of strong neighborhoods and dignity through home ownership.
Habitat succeeds in reintroducing into neighborhoods the most basic building block of any community - the homeowner. Habitat provides resources, guidance, and hope to aspiring families. These families work from within their neighborhoods, creating the change we all seek, and repaying the investment that we have made in them.
Volunteers provide most of the labor, and individual and corporate donors provide money and materials to build Habitat houses. Partner families themselves invest hundreds of hours of labor -- "sweat equity" -- into building their homes and the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving Fund for Humanity that is used to build more houses.
Our History
Old Colony Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1989 as Attleboro Area Habitat for Humanity. Over the years, through the reach and support of our volunteers, we have continued to expand our service area. Most recently, in 2007, Bellingham and Franklin were added to support area.
Today, we service 12 communities, including Attleboro, Bellingham, Foxborough, Franklin, Mansfield, Norfolk, North Attleboro, Norton, Plainville, Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Wrentham.
A Unique Building Model
Habitat for Humanity is known throughout the world for its unique "partnership housing" model that founder Millard Fuller envisioned - where volunteers work alongside the families who will own the completed homes to make a lasting change in their communities.
Old Colony Habitat for Humanity acquires land and/or buildings from local communities, banks, and from generous individual donors. Professional architects and engineers then design our buildings, not only conforming to the local building code, but, as necessary, in line with the historic preservation guidelines. Once this is complete, our volunteers and partner families begin work on all aspects of construction.
Habitat's volunteers are the lifeblood of the organization. By using volunteer labor and many donated materials, Habitat is able to do what no other government or corporate entity can do; Habitat is able to facilitate change using the community and volunteers to leverage and multiply every dollar raised and ounce of energy spent. By working together, volunteers, corporations, congregations, individual supporters and homeowner families, the cycle of poverty can be broken, neighborhoods rebuilt, and community revitalized.
