Volunteers Working On Food Rebuild

We love showing off the great efforts of the Habitat for Humanity volunteers who are continuing their hard work on behalf of flood impacted families. While many folks are quickly moving toward recovery, others are struggling to catch up. Habitat for Humanity is working in the Minot community to ensure that all flood impacted families will soon be home again.

Here are some pics of our September 15th, 2012 work day. Thanks to everyone who showed up to battle the bees, while sweating to help their neighbors in need. Volunteers are the heart and soul of Habitat for Humanities success and we are grateful for your support.

Volunteers Working for Flood Recovery

8 Sep. 2012: Volunteers spent a beautiful Saturday morning helping a flood impacted homeowner take the first step toward restoring her home by constructing a storage shed. The shed is a simple first step that provides a small amount of storage during the home build that Habitat is beginning at 517 2nd Ave NW in Minot

The homeowner was very grateful to all who volunteered and provided lunch and drinks for the workers. Our next volunteer work day will be Saturday, Sept 15th at 9:30am when we will begin construction of the foundation for the new home.

Our immediate goals are to build the foundation, exterior walls, roof, and to install the windows and exterior doors. This will enable us to start the furnace and complete the interior work during the winter.

As we are starting late in the building season, we hope to complete some work on week days, provided volunteers are available. If you are a shift worker and are available during the day, please email us at minot.habitat@ hotmail.com and let us know you wish to participate. 

Please remember, you do not need any special skills to volunteer, we have skilled supervisors on site to guide you during the work. All you need is a heart for helping your neighbors in need - and we ask that you bring a hammer, if you have one. 

Habitat for Humanity International Visitor

Our affiliate was visited this week by Ed Carr, a disaster recovery expert from Habitat for Humanity International. Mr. Carr came to assess Minot's flood damage and determine what additional resources HFHI could direct toward our flood recovery.

Mr. Carr toured the flood zone for a first hand view of the scale of this disaster. He visited with local flood recovery oriented groups and was in constant contact with HFHI's Disaster Response office. He finished his visit with a clear understanding that flood impacted families will require additional flood recovery assistance.

Northern Lights Habitat for Humanity is diligently working and coordinating with other disaster response organizations to help flood impacted families to return to their home. Once Mr. Carr reports his findings to HFHI we will learn what additional resources may be available to us. 

Habitat Flood Recovery Efforts

While Habitat for Humanity is not specifically a disaster response organization, we have responded to the terrible damage from last summer's flooding. In light of this disaster, we have widened the focus of our core mission to provide building assistance to qualified flood victims. This assistance includes, clean up of flood debris, gutting flooded homes, salvaging of usable items from houses scheduled for demolition, construction of storage sheds, and other assistance as needed.

We are working in cooperation with other disaster response groups in our area, but due to limited resources we are unable to respond to every need. Still, our goal is to assist as many flood victims as possible in returning to their homes as quickly as possible. Flooded homeowners seeking assistance should contact the Habitat for Humanity office in Minot.