Habitat for Humanity Yorkton has not yet started its 2015 build, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still doing good in the community.
When a family whose mother had recently been confined to a wheelchair approached the organization, project manager Merv Catchuk put out the word to Castle Yorkton Building Supplies, one of many partners Habitat has developed in its six years.
“They very quickly stepped forward to supply $1,400 in materials to help this family in their time of need and allows them to focus on healing,” Catchuk said.
Volunteers also quickly got involved including Catchuk, Wayne Nuefeld of Yorkton and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Elder Ruth, Elder Reid, Brother Block, Sister Block and Brother Blowers.
Over a weekend, the group built a ramp to the front door of the home on Broadway Street West.
Catchuk said these are not the kinds of projects Habitat necessarily wants to be involved in all the time because its primary focus is providing affordable home ownership for deserving families, but given the right circumstances are always willing to look at.
“We are prepared to go above and beyond in certain cases, if we can,” he said.
A firm date for the start of Habitat’s 2015 build has not been settled, but it will be a duplex on Myrtle Avenue.
The two families that will take possession of the homes sometime in the fall if all goes well have been selected, but their names are yet to be released.
It will be the Yorkton chapter’s fifth build allowing Habitat to provide homes for six families in six years.
