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Habitat For Humanity: Sunrise Park. By: Lisa Van Wickler. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville.
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Habitat For Humanity: Sunrise Park By: Lisa Van Wickler
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville • The mission statement of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville is “to create simple, decent,affordable housing in partnership with low-income families, volunteers and the communities of greater Charlottesville.” • Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville was founded in 1991 and has built homes in partnership with more than 100 local low-income families
Sunrise Park • In 2004, Habitat for Humanity purchased Sunrise Trailer Court, a 16 unit trailer park in Charlottesville • In 2010, the organization and many volunteers began to build affordable homes for Habitat Partner families • Today several of these homes have been completed and the Partner Families are currently residing in Sunrise Park
Building Sunrise • As Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville’s Youth United secretary and volunteer manager, I was able to be part of the construction of Sunrise Park since the Beginning • This photo depicts me and several other volunteers on one of our first builds
Sources • http://www.cvillehabitat.org/about • http://cvillehabitat.org/sunrise