Dedication of
Orange County Habitat for Humanity’s 24th House

It’s finally finished! Orange County Habitat for Humanity’s 24th house is complete, thanks to the support of so many in Orange County. The Sunday, June 14 at 3:30 dedication was a celebration of the completion of home for the Beasley's.

Shown here are the Beasley's in their new living room with friends, chruch members, OCHFH board members and some of the building volunteers at the Dedication.    more...
More about the house and our partners.

Woodberry Forest School Students raise $1000
to help Habitat!

All through the cool fall days, dedicated students worked at every home WFS football game, selling food and drinks from a concession stand. All the proceeds, $1000, has been given to Orange County Habitat for Humanity to help with the current house being built. Pictured here are Brett Berger, Carter Weise, Ted Corwin, and Walker Weise. Many, many thanks to these students as well as Henry Copeland, Daniel Oh, Sharon Slade, John & Terry Thiel, & Clyde Firman for helping with this fundraiser.

Please consider volunteering your time to work on this project or make a donation to help purchase materials to complete this home. 

84 Lumber is selling building materials for this house at their cost...no mark-up!  This partnership will result in thousands of dollars saved, and Orange County Habitat for Humanity is very appreciative of the support given by 84 Lumber. 

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URGENT!
MAKE A DONATION NOW!

Register NOW! Shop and Share is an easy way to help OCHFH raise funds if you shop at Food Lion and use their MVP Card. Go to www.foodlion.com and click on the Lion Shop And Share link on the left. Designate Rapidan Habitat (they do not have our new name yet) in Orange, VA, as your non-profit. Each time you shop a portion will be donated to OCHFH. Thanks to those the chose us.

Habitat for Humanity is a Christian organization that brings people from all beliefs and backgrounds together to

build houses in partnership with people in need.  People of many different beliefs demonstrate their faith by working together to build.  People of faith can support the work of Habitat through prayer, making lunches, offering devotions, raising funds and providing labor for house building.

Orange County Habitat for Humanity received its first charter in 1992. In its first decade, 14 families were helped to realize their dream of owning their own house. Our Mission and Plan

Orange County Habitat for Humanity is a Christian organization partnering with low-income families to help provide them safe, decent and affordable housing. Homes are built using volunteer labor and donated materials when possible. All partner families put in sweat equity working on their homes and the homes of others, as well as working for the betterment of the community. Homes built by Habitat for Humanity are then sold at 0% interest to the partner families. The donated labor and materials help keep the cost of their houses in the affordable range.

Partner families are given a hand up, not a hand out. You can help Habitat and help alleviate poverty housing by making a donation of cash, goods or services to Orange County Habitat for Humanity. You may even help yourself if your donation qualifies for tax credits.

For all the information on Habitat for Humanity International check out http://www.habitat.org/

Since its founding Habitat has built more than 300,000 houses around the world. Habitat is a nonprofit Christian housing ministry that works to both eliminate poverty housing around the world and to make adequate housing a matter of conscience and action. People from all walks of life work in partnership to build houses with families in need.
       The need for decent housing in America and around the world is staggering. Habitat believes that all people deserve a simple, decent place to live on terms they can afford to pay.
       Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner (partner) families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit, financed with affordable, no-interest loans. The homeowners' monthly mortgage payments are used to build still more Habitat houses.
        Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment and the monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor -- sweat equity -- into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.