Local realtors have hammered out a plan to raise the necessary $20,000 for Moose Jaw Habitat for Humanity to build it’s first home by this year.
During Wednesday’s Moose Jaw Real Estate Board (MJREB) annual general meeting at Wood Acres, board member and Quality of Life program board chairwoman Karen Krawczyk said local retailers have pledged to raise the remaining portion of the $120,000 necessary for Habitat to build a home this summer.
“It’s helping to build a home,” she told the Times-Herald after the meeting. “We sell homes every day and make our livings off homes.”
Krawczyk said realtors wanted to do something special to commemorate MJREB’s 50 anniversary, so fundraising for the housing program made sense.
In order to raise the pledged money, the local chapter of Quality for Life (which is a community-development program set up through the Association of Saskatchewan realtors) is selling 200 hammers to local businesses and residents.
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