The mission of Habitat for Humanity of Evansville, Inc. is to help fulfill the greater mission of Habitat for Humanity International to eliminate poverty housing in the world. We seek to witness to and implement the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Evansville, Ind., and throughout the world by building homes with God’s people in need and by working with them to create a better neighborhood and community in which to live and work.
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Board members sponsoring ADA compliant build
Habitat News
• Habitat featured in FHLBI's annual report• Mizell Stewart, editor of Evansville Courier Press, speaks at Ministerial Breakfast
• Volunteers needed for accelerated build in June
• Time capsule buried
• Habitat of Evansville celebrates 25th Anniversary
• Habitat families to Pay It Forward
• Habitat for Humanity of Evansville announces its first Green Build
Evansville, Indiana (June 27, 2009) – Habitat for Humanity of Evansville has raised walls on its first ever two-bedroom fully ADA compliant home for a couple with special needs. Habitat’s Board of Directors is sponsoring the home, located in the New Haven subdivision at Green River and Fickas roads, and several board members joined the family today to raise the walls.
“This house will finally make me independent,” Sandy McDaniel told board members. “I will be able to sit outside and even get the mail in.”
David and Sandy McDaniel currently live in an apartment that is not handicap accessible. Sandy, who is confined to a wheelchair, must have help every time she enters the bathroom or wants to go outside. Their new Habitat home, however, will have a roll-in shower, wide doorways, countertops that she can roll under and more.
The home’s design was originally a three-bedroom, but the design was reconfigured to a two-bedroom to allow for additional space in the bathroom in order to make it ADA compliant. It will have the same square footage as other Habitat homes, approximately 1150 square feet.
At lunch time, Sandy read a letter thanking the board members, regular volunteers and others from Crossroads Christian Church who were helping on her home.
“We will once again have the freedom to come and go without anyone's help,” she told the crowd that had assembled for the lunch that Crossroads members had provided. Sandy, seated in her wheelchair, is pictured at right just below the banner.
We are pledged to the letter and spirit of U.S. policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the nation. We encourage and support an affirmative advertising and marketing program in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, or sources of income.
