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What's Habitat for Humanity of Southwest Montana?
 Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit,
nondenominational Christian housing organization. Since 1976,
Habitat has built more than 100,000 houses in more than 80 countries,
including some 30,000 houses across the United States. Habitat
houses are purchased by the homeowner families.
Three factors make Habitat houses affordable to low-income people
worldwide:
Houses are sold at no profit, with no interest charged on the
mortgage. Homeowners and volunteers
build the houses under trained supervision. Individuals, corporations,
faith groups and others provide financial support.
Habitat for Humanity's work is organized at the local level by
more than 1,900 affiliates worldwide. Affiliates coordinate house
building and select partner families. Homeowner families are
chosen according to their need; their ability to repay the no-profit,
no-interest mortgage; and their willingness to work in partnership
with Habitat. Habitat for Humanity
does not discriminate according to race, religion or ethnic group.
To learn more, visit their main web site at www.habitat.org.
 Habitat for Humanity of Southwest Montana is an
affiliate of the larger international organization. Our local
affiliate is set up to work in seven counties in Southwest Montana.
Right now we are actively building and raising funds to help
build homes in Butte and Dillon, Montana. We have succeeded in
partnering with families in Butte, Dillon, Boulder and Whitehall so far. A group
that organized to build Habitat homes in Anaconda has established
a separate affiliate there and completed their first home in
1997. To reach the Anacondagroup, call Jim at 406-563-5538.
To find out the latest details about the projects of our
affiliate, please visit the What's New? section of this site.
We have worked hard since 1994 to gather the resources and the
local talent to bring decent affordable housing to those willing
to work hard and invest of themselves to break the cycle of need
that traps too many Americans in sub-standard housing.
We are a mature affiliate,
having partnered to complete more than 40 homes, but we have much more to do to ensure
that everyone who wants to become a Habitat partner and is qualified
for a Habitat home can participate in the program.
We have a long
way to gobut our path is clear and we know it will require many new hands and hearts. Luckily,
our communities are blessed with an abundance of strong hands
and big hearts. We hope that we can count yours among them.
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