Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce has some more builds planned for this year.
The organization says in 2022, it has plans to build seven new houses in Saugeen First Nation for member families.
A virtual groundbreaking ceremony was held on April 28th. Chief Lester Anoquot and Habitat Executive Director Greg Fryer officially launched the Build in a virtual Ground Breaking Ceremony. A YouTube video of the ceremony can be seen here: https://youtu.be/M7Uz4epFlsw
In 2020, Saugeen First Nation and Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce signed a memorandum of understanding forming a partnership that will involve Habitat building energy-efficient and affordable houses for member families on Saugeen’s territory. Last year, Habitat built four houses at Saugeen and this year, seven more houses will be constructed using volunteers and local contractors.
The families who will live in the new homes have been selected by the Chief and Council. As with all families selected for Habitat’s housing program they will be required to complete 500 “sweat equity” volunteer hours building their homes.
Habitat will also provide homeowner education sessions for the families including budgeting, estate planning and home maintenance.
Habitat is actively recruiting volunteers to help with the build. Construction is expected to take up to six months to complete with the goal of the families moving into their new homes late fall.
They’ll be taking volunteers starting June 6th.
