To Our Volunteers, I Salute You!

"Our Habitat Volunteers were the backbone of our builds this last year in Indian River at the two job sites on Will Drive. We would not have been able to build these two houses without their help. Our Volunteers were often assigned positions on the job sites of all natures and occasionally asked to handle tasks they had no experience in. They all managed to do an excellent job even though very few of them have been on a house build before. They would show up everyday ready to work and excited to be there. They understood what they were there for – to help in any means necessary. Their role often was not defined, before they showed up at the site, which means they really had no expectations for the day other than to take on whatever challenge needed to be done.

I would also say that our volunteers were always passionate about their work. Having people around that are passionate about what they are working on increased positivity on our job site environment. This had a positive impact on many other facets of our operations. For instance we had a fun job site that was productive as a result more volunteers came to help. The gift that our volunteers gave to our job sites this past year. By showing up, even on the hottest of days, has helped us greatly with our mission of supplying safe affordable housing to people who need it.

To our volunteers, I salute you!”

-Ron Hart, Construction Supervisor