special projects

Home Builders Blitz

Habitat for Humanity’s Home Builders Blitz is the organization’s singlelargest one-week build event in its history. The week focuses on partnering professional builders, who donate their time and building materials, with Habitat affiliates to build affordable homes in the communities where they live and work.

The Home Builders Association of Durham, Orange, and Chatham Counties is the driving force behind Chatham Habitat's Home Builders Blitz program. The organization built 10 homes in just one week in Durham, Orange, and Chatham Counties in 2006 and 10 homes in 2008. The HBA-DOC has built and funded 8 homes in Chatham County so far.
Learn more, see photos at the Home Builders Association website...

Collegiate Challenge

Collegiate Challenge is Habitat for Humanity International’s year-round alternative break program that provides opportunities for students from youth groups, high schools and colleges to spend a week of their school break working in partnership with a Habitat for Humanity affiliate in the United States. Chatham Habitat hosts approximately 100 to 150 college students per year from across the country. Learn more about the Collegiate Challenge program.

National Women Build Week

Women volunteers come together in May during the days leading up to Mothers Day to learn construction skills and make a difference by building homes and communities. Women Build projects are regularly held by Habitat affiliates across the United States, and by Habitat organizations around the world. Women at these builds have furthered Habitat’s home-building mission by helping to construct more than 1,500 houses. Approximately 60 women in Chatham County participate each year. For more about our National Women Build Week program, email David Snyder or call him at 919.542.0794, ext. 228.

Apostles Build

Symbolic of Jesus’ 12 disciples, 12 congregations of various denominations and faiths share sponsorship of a home for a family in need. Groups volunteer on the construction site and provide financial backing. Faith groups in Chatham County have helped build nine homes through this program so far. Two Apostles Build homes are built each year and groups can sign up at any time. For more about Apostles Build, email David Snyder or call him at 919.542.0794, ext. 228.

FaithWorks Build

Ten churches and other faith groups team up to build a home for a local family in need. Each congregation volunteers on the construction site and contributes $1,000, which is matched by the Duke Endowment. Chatham Habitat has built two houses through this program. For more about FaithWorks Build email David Snyder or call him at 919.542.0794, ext. 228.

Building on Faith

During Building on Faith week, Habitat affiliates, churches and other faith communities around the world simultaneously build houses as a witness to the power of God's love. Chatham Habitat hosts a church group from another part of the country which spends a week working on a home for a local low-income family. For more about Building on Faith, email David Snyder or call him at 919.542.0794, ext. 228.

RV Care-A-Vanners

RV Care-A-Vanners is a volunteer program for anyone who travels in a recreational vehicle, wants to build Habitat houses and have fun doing it. RV Care-A-Vanners welcomes people of all ages, from all walks of life who want to pick up a hammer and help change lives. Learn more at the Habitat for Humanity International website.