By Sarah Klein The keys to a brand new Habitat for Humanity home will be turned over to a deserving family on Friday. A Philippine immigrant working as a health care aide is the recipient of the home, along with her two children, through the Manitoba Liquor and...
By David Klassen Staff from Great-West Life will begin a 12-day house build today for Habitat for Humanity just steps away from their corporate offices. Nearly 200 volunteers will be working at 248 Langside Street until August 30 to create a home for a deserving...
By Sarah Klein Volunteers with Habitat for Humanity have returned to Winnipeg's Riverbend suburb to perform a six-day building blitz. A continuation of last year, where 10 homes were built at the Fernbank and Main location, eight homes will be worked on this year as...
By Brian Schultz The Manitoba Home Builders Association (MHBA) is building two brand new homes for Habitat for Humanity. To mark its 75th anniversary, the MHBA will utilize its network of builders, installers and retail suppliers to donate all materials and services,...
By Sarah Klein Two Winnipeg city councillors will lend a hand today in Habitat chez soi’s construction project (the Francophone committee of Habitat for Humanity Winnipeg). Couns. Dan Vandal and Brian Mayes will participate in the ongoing work to build a new house for...
Thirty-six cyclists will wheel to the site of their Habitat for Humanity-sponsored home on Saturday. Together with the 2012 Cycle of Hope cyclists and road crew, Habitat for Humanity Manitoba will throw an uplifting welcome home ceremony at the entrance to the...
By Sarah Klein Habitat for Humanity will begin to build a home in Riverbend today as part of the annual HFHM Blitz Build. Hundreds of volunteers and work crews will lend a hand and construct eight homes in just 12 days. The homes will be located in the area of North...
Habitat for Humanity will begin to transport a home constructed by volunteers from Memorial Park in the wee hours of Saturday. The home will be secured and moved beginning at 4 a.m., where it will eventually rest on McCalman Avenue in Elmwood by 7 a.m. The confirmed...
Habitat for Humanity Manitoba raised the first wall to a new home being built in Memorial Park on Monday. Habit is celebrating its 25th anniversary and will construct the home in the downtown Winnipeg park, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Premier Greg...
By Brian Schultz Habitat for Humanity is building on its success, coming off of constructing 21 local homes in 2011 and breaking an 18-year record. If you count the two homes Habitat built outside of Winnipeg in Virden, Manitoba, that number climbs to 23. “Fifteen...
By David Klassen If you noticed an extended convoy of emergency vehicles escorting a rather large home early Friday morning, then you were witnessing the transport of one of Habitat for Humanity's latest projects. Watch: Habitat for Humanity Winnipeg moved a recently...
Habitat for Humanity Winnipeg will transport one of its newest houses to its permanent foundation in the wee hours of Friday morning. Beginning at 3:30 a.m., the house will depart the Red River Ex grounds en route to 167 Archibald Street. The approximately two-hour...
