Amy and Paul – We are doing great! We are so appreciative and happy to have our home. We absolutely love it! It has been such a blessing raising our children in such a nice home. Our children are 17, 16, 14, 12, 11, 6, 4, and 2. The kids are enjoying school and doing… Read more »

Dear Friends of Habitat, Your generous support to Habitat for Humanity changes lives—and sometimes saves them. When my daughters Njeri and Koi were very little, we fled Kenya to seek asylum in the United States. We arrived here with little more than memories of the violence that took away not only our home, but my… Read more »

Moving to Sonoma County from Los Angeles at seven years old, Hannah found home. She’s left and returned, but this is the place, the community, where she and her family belong. Her husband, Jeffrey, grew up in Trinidad and Tobago. Both coming to Sonoma from somewhere else, they appreciate the land and the people with… Read more »

Jose Martinez was laughing “I’ll show up tomorrow (at the dedication of his Habitat house) with big dark circles under my eyes,” because he expected to be too excited to sleep all night. What was he most looking forward to? “Celebrating with all the volunteers with heart who made the magic. It’s magic, a miracle,”… Read more »

Building a New Life: Prospective Homeowner Partner Jasmine Palmer In her own unvarnished words, Jasmine Palmer “learned to be a responsible adult” later in life than she would have liked. But after years of “living like an adolescent teenager getting in trouble all the time,” she found herself at a crossroads, separated from her two… Read more »

Karen Redding describes her Habitat Homeownership as “an amazing dream come true.” A single mom with two kids – Arabella then 9 and Andrew 15 – she was working full time, and living in a 700 s.f. two-bedroom cottage. Each child had a bedroom and she slept in the living room. The cottage had mold… Read more »