Nov 24, 2020 | News
Week Five: Academic Success Imagine the worst case scenario for students and we’ve seen it over the past nine months. Attending school from home, online and on a computer, without social interactions or skill building. Now, consider that situation coupled by...
Nov 17, 2020 | News
Week Four: Financial Stability This week we take a look at how Habitat provides families with an opportunity to gain financial stability, often times for the very first time in their family’s history. Cycles of poverty can be near impossible to break, unless a...
Nov 10, 2020 | News
Week Three: Safety Week three focuses on safety and how a Habitat home can make all the difference in the lives of a family. Imagine living without doors, locks, or privacy. Imagine living in high-density buildings during a pandemic, where nothing is clean or safe....
Nov 4, 2020 | News
Week Two: Health Our focus this week is on health – mental and physical – of families, children, and communities. When families live in clean, sustainable, energy efficient homes they are less likely to suffer from environmental illnesses like asthma and...
Oct 28, 2020 | News
Week One: Child Development This week we focus on child development and how Habitat for Humanity influences healthier, stronger children in our communities. “Habitat works to eliminate children’s experiences of substandard housing, thereby supporting their...
Oct 27, 2020 | News
Habitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut’s main office is all decked out for some serious neighborhood fun. Located at 377 Broad Street in New London, the traditional colonial on the hill has been transformed into a spooky haunt that has all the local ghosts and...
Oct 27, 2020 | News
Families in need of affordable housing live everywhere: small towns and villages, sprawling cities, your community. Housing need presents itself wherever people live and work, and it takes many forms and has far-reaching effects. While the vast majority of Americans...
Oct 5, 2020 | News
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, more than 18 million U.S. households were paying half or more of their income on a place to live. Now, as the significant economic impacts of COVID-19 continue to unfold, the number of families struggling to make ends meet is only...
Sep 22, 2020 | News
Are you registered to vote? On September 22, 2020, Americans will celebrate National Voter Registration Day with a massive cross-country effort to register voters well in advance of Election Day on November 3rd. In Connecticut you have the option of requesting an...
Sep 19, 2020 | News
Habitat for Humanity is more than a nonprofit housing ministry. We have a vision of a world where we share one humanity, and that’s a world that we believe in and fight for every day. We are a faith-based organization, but we realize that faith alone is not enough....
