Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity to host Family Fun Fest

WEST SPRINGFIELD — When individuals consider the Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity, they might image volunteers swinging hammers.

On Oct. 5, nonetheless, the group is bringing the group collectively differently with its first-ever Family Fun Fest.

“It’s that typical fall fair nostalgia that you’re looking for,” mentioned Program Coordinator Olga Callirgos. From midday to 4 p.m. on the Morgan Road Pavillion, 459 Morgan Rd., there shall be meals vehicles and breweries on web site, together with raffles, craft distributors and actions for kids. All of the festivities are free and open to the general public.

“We used to have the Feastival,” mentioned Callirgos, “but we realized it was the same thing every year” and “it wasn’t really accessible to the entire community.”

The Greater Habitat for Humanity is a housing ministry that empowers low-income households by way of the generational change of homeownership and residential preservation. The group companions with households who buy their houses from Habitat for Humanity through an inexpensive mortgage. The accomplice households additionally full monetary training courses and supply sweat fairness on Habitat for Humanity tasks.

Aside from the house possession program, Habitat for Humanity additionally affords a house preservation program, repairing houses in the neighborhood. Currently, Callirgos mentioned solely navy veteran owners are being accepted into the restore program.

The group is funded by way of non-public donors and grants. Aside from three full-time workers members, Habitat for Humanity is crewed by volunteers who work within the workplace and within the area. Callirgos mentioned one more reason for the Fun Fest is to permit extra individuals to turn out to be conscious of Habitat for Humanity and the companies it affords group members. Since 1987, Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity has helped 74 households make their homeownership goals come true.

More details about Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity might be discovered at habitatspringfield.org.