Social Good
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Donating Seasonal Home Decor Is A Year Round Effort
Decluttering your home decor? Whether it’s Christmas, Fall, Halloween, Summer, Easter, Valentine and other seasonal home decorations, donate them to a Habitat ReStore near you All throughout the year in Ontario, our homes go through different home decorations to accent and align it with the holiday and season. For instance…
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Volunteer at Habitat HM’s Mississauga ReStore!
Across the world, people of all ages engage in volunteerism. Their reasons for doing so vary depending on who you ask: to improve their community, to support a particular initiative, to make friends and build lasting relationships – some volunteers just want to do something meaningful with their retirement. It…
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Housing Crisis in Canada: A Negligence of Human Rights
Image Source: The Canadian Press The True North Strong and Free? It’s no secret that a lot of people take the things in their lives for granted. Whether we’re longing for the latest tech gadget, pining over perfectly sculpted six pack abs,…
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How Many People Does It Take to Revitalize a Neighbourhood? 95 Panasonic Canada Volunteers
On September 26th, 2019, 3 buses dropped off 95 Panasonic Canada employees at Ahneen Co-operative Housing in Mississauga. The Panasonic teams used over 100 paint brushes, 50 cans of paint, 80 hammers, and a lot of teamwork to help revitalize the 60 townhomes comprising the community. This was…
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Habitat for Humanity Halton-Mississauga Recognizes REALTORS® Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB)
Pictured (from left to right): Tara Petch (Director of Partnerships, Habitat HM), Bob Van de Vrande (2019 RAHB President), Tim Mattioli (RAHB member, former HOAP board member), Bruce Moran (RAHB member, former HOAP board member), and John Gerrard (CEO, Habitat HM) You might assume that the…
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Bold New Housing Strategy Makes Transitional Housing Priority
On September 5, 2019, a bold new housing strategy was announced at our Crew-Goetz build site. Halton Multicultural Council, Halton Women’s Place, Milton Transitional Housing, and Summit Housing & Outreach…
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X-Tile Canada: Building A Better Future, Tile by Tile
Habitat HM is “floored” by the generous donation of X-Tile Canada. For Edward Saunders, sales manager at X-Tile Canada, being able to donate product that helps us construct affordable homes for those who need it most is what makes it all worth…