When you volunteer you make a difference in your community, but when you are a woman working in construction you are also empowering women and challenging inequities and discrimination in society.

The invaluable role in the mission of providing housing to Americus. That each member would process a piece of equity in the structure that
would stand at the completion of the task. One that each member would be proud to say, “I helped to
build that.” This simple notation of “having many hands is better than one” is the cornerstone on which
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. built the foundation of the Civil Rights Movement and is the same cornerstone
that supports our mission here at Habitat today.

The implementation of urban renewal continues to impact the lives of black families. Discriminatory policies got us to where we are now, and the only solution is to identify and reverse what was done to ensure prosperity amongst Black communities.