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10/14/14: ABWK and Defender Direct Finished in Record Time!
Riverside based Defender Direct volunteers helped paint this past Tuesday in Old Plantation mobile home park, finishing the paint day in record time! This home belonged to a single monther and her 1-year-old son Mathew. The home was a dark blue, and the homeowner would always tell everyone when giving directions, “It’s the ugly blue house on […]
10/11/14: A Fresh Start with Ramona HS’s Habitat Chapter
Ramona High School, one of our long time Habitat Chapters, came out to spend a Saturday morning with us in order to help Victor, a senior citizen, at Riverside Country Club Mobile Home Park. The Riverside Country Club MHP notified us to see if we could help Victor out with his home. Before we got […]
10/4/14: RCC’s Alpha Gamma Sigma Paints!
Last Saturday we were blessed to have volunteers from Riverside Community College (RCC) and several future, Habitat homeowners on another ‘Brush with Kindness’ work day. The students from RCC belonged to the prestigious Alpha Gamma Sigma (AGS), which is California Community Colleges’ Scholastic Honor Society. Becoming a member in this Honor Society requires a 3.0 GPA and […]
9/30/14: BJ’s Corona helps paint in Riverside
This Tuesday morning in Riverside, we worked with volunteers from BJ’s restaurant in Corona to paint a mobile home for a resident in need. These BJ’s employees do a lot of charity work. They volunteer as a group at least once each month, for example, at food drives (during Thanksgiving), adopting a family for Christmas, and […]
9/20/14: Rancho Community Church Paints!
We had forty-two volunteers this last weekend for our “Brush with Kindness” event. It was a nice, cloudy September morning with some members of the Rancho Community Church congregation in Temecula. We were blessed that so many felt compelled to make the trip. The work was completed really fast with so many eager hands. As one volunteer put it, there’s nothing quicker and better […]
9/17 & 9/20: UCR Int. Stu., Rancho Community Church and more volunteers
This ‘Brush with Kindness’ mobile home event took two days to complete; one morning with our UCR, Japanese international student volunteers, and the second morning with independent volunteers, many from Rancho Community Church. Both groups did a great job painting and the house looked magnificent afterwards. This home belonged to a retired couple and they could not appreciate the work more. […]
9/15/14:Brush with Kindness with Stantec
Stantec, a multi-disciplinary company with architectural, engineering, and environmental expertise and over 14,000 employees in 230 locations throughout the world,’s Redlands’ branch was gracious enough to spend a Saturday with Habitat for Humanity “Brush with Kindness” in Riverside, painting a mobile home in dire need of a face lift. These workers were very hard working and we finished […]
9/13/14:Yard Clean-up with 163rd Security Forces and Class 74 Correctional Deputies
This yard clean-up was organized for a needy Riverside homeowner whose yard had become completely unmanageable. Nature was taking over, so we brought some of our toughest volunteers to help reclaim the property. Some of the tools we would need included a chainsaw, axes, wheelbarrows, a large yard-waste bin, and over forty volunteers. […]
9/10/14: UCR International Students Paint with Us
September morn, the 10th, 2014, we had our A Brush with Kindness volunteer event painting a mobile home in Riverside. Our volunteers were UCR International Students from Japan who traveled halfway around the world to experience America through the performance of community service. During their four-week stay, these international students are supporting our community by working with […]
8/23/14: Volunteers Clearing Out the Shrubs
When one thinks about Habitat for Humanity Riverside’s A Brush With Kindness program, usually an image of volunteers painting homes and climbing ladders comes to mind. However, this is just one of the multiple aspects that this program entails. Another aspect to ABWK is landscaping and our volunteers on last Saturday’s project day found this […]
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