Carol and Stacy will be sweating alongside over 75 volunteers as they work together to build their homes. Stacy is a single mom, who teaches middle school. She states that qualifying for a Habitat house has advanced her dream of owning her own home by 10 years! She is thrilled that her daughter’s elementary school is only about a mile away.

Carol, a widow who lives with a handicapped son and grandchild, told me that she is from a very large family – 12 siblings. Of the 150 people among her siblings and their offspring, only 4 houses were livable after Katrina, so we can hardly imagine how over-crowded they were. Now as a cancer survivor, Carol is thrilled and relieved to know that she will have a wonderful home to move into in a month or so.