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You can now show your financial support of Hattiesburg Area Habitat by donating online!

 
Get a glimpse of our 2009 subdivision project:

CELESTE PLACE

Want more information?  Call us: 601-582-4663

 

Did You Know? ...
Habitat homeowners must have good credit, a stable income & earn 450 hours of "sweat equity". 

 
Click here to see what our USM Habitat campus chapter is doing
 
 
Click here to view current staff & volunteer opportunities

Get more information on how to join AmeriCorps & serve at our affiliate! 

 
 

Click here to learn how Hattiesburg Area Habitat participated in the 2008 Gulf Coast Region Carter Work Project!

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 
 

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Hattiesburg Area Habitat thanks its Collegiate Challenge Student Volunteers!!"

“I loved the experience overall.  I enjoyed working with everyone…good times, good laughs, good people!”  --Collegiate Challenge Volunteer

More than 195 students from across the country traveled to Hattiesburg for their spring break to build a Habitat for Humanity house and a few sheds for Habitat families.  The students were participants of Collegiate Challenge, a Habitat for Humanity program that provides year-round opportunities for youth to use their vacations to help build homes.   

From March 1st through March 28th students from the University of Southern Mississippi, Wingate University, University of North Carolina – Asheville, Kentucky State University, Rocky Hill School, University of Massachusetts, Shawnee State University, and the University of Chicago helped to build one house and multiple sheds with Hattiesburg Area Habitat for Humanity. 

“We truly appreciate the work of these youth volunteers,” said Andrea Dixon, Habitat’s Executive Director.  “Choosing to spend their spring break with our affiliate is such an honor and we are grateful to have the opportunity to host these students this year.  Their unselfish service to our community will make a difference by helping Hattiesburg families in need obtain safe, decent and affordable homes.”  

“I am completely honored to have been able to volunteer here and meet the family.  This was an experience I will never forget!”                           --Collegiate Challenge Volunteer

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The Hattiesburg Area Habitat for Humanity family & friends honor the memory of Mr. Earl Watson, Jr. our beloved Construction Supervisor and friend.

WE WILL DEFINITELY MISS HIM!

       

"He was a great member of our staff...A lot of the staff called him 'Pop,' and volunteers usually ended up calling him 'Uncle Earl,' ... He was loved by everyone who came out to work with him."

A memorial service was held on Friday, June 13, 2008 at Dixie United Methodist Church in Hattiesburg for Earl E. Watson, Jr. who died June 7, 2008 in Jackson, MS.  More than 90 people came to show their love for Earl and his family.

The family has requested that in lieu of flowers, monetary donations can be made to Mrs. Margaret Watson in c/o Hattiesburg Area HFH at P.O. Box 1092, Hattiesburg, MS 39403 or contributions can be made in memory of Earl Watson, Jr. to Hattiesburg Area HFH at P.O. Box 1092, Hattiesburg, MS 39403.

Click here to learn more about Becoming a Homeowner and upcoming application orientations!

Hattiesburg Area Habitat for Humanity, an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, has been helping low-income families build and own their own homes since 1990. Under the direction of a volunteer Board of Directors, Hattiesburg Area Habitat works in partnership with low-income families to build affordable, decent housing in Forrest and Lamar counties, and in the city of Hattiesburg based on the principles of the Theology of the Hammer.

Without the help of our generous donors and volunteers, we could not bring the dream of a decent, affordable home to families in need. You can participate in this worldwide effort to solve the low-income housing crisis.

Volunteers are always needed at Habitat. Use skills you already have, or learn new skills by helping to build a Habitat home, working in the office, assisting with fundraising events or on a committee. Habitat works because of the commitment of its volunteers, businesses and organizations in the community.

For more information on how you, your corporation, church or community organization can become a part of Hattiesburg Area Habitat for Humanity please contact us at: 601-582-HOME or email: info@HattiesburgHabitat.org.

What is the Theology of the Hammer?

Hattiesburg Area HFH is a United Way agency.

 

 

 

 

 

P.O. Box 1092, 5191 Hwy 42, Hattiesburg, MS 39403
© 2005-2006 Hattiesburg Area Habitat for Humanity

 

 

 

 

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