Habitat for Humanity: Smar member helps with the house that MAR built.

Last year, during the MAR convention, former SMAR President Reata Swanson and several other SMAR members took the time to join other Maryland REALTORS® in helping to build a Habitat for Humanity house sponsored by MAR. The house, located in Snow Hill, has finally been completed and was recently dedicated.

Gifts of Wine, Salt, Bread and a Bible are presented by Kathy Schardt, Treasurer of Worcester County's Habitat for Humanity.

The gifts are symbolic. Salt represents activity. It preserves and heals. Bread is the staff of life. Wine signifies the friuts of labor, and he Bible will be a reminder of the love an generosity that produced this house

Happy new homeowner Leslie Dix is overwhelmed. Habitat families participate in the construction of their homes by providing several hundred hours of "sweat equity" towards the construction of their homes or the homes of others in the program.

Partner families are selected on the basis of need and their ability to make mortgage payments. The homes are sold at cost, and are financed with no-interest mortgages.

Below: Nicholas Perugino, President of the Habitat for Humanity in Worcester County, presents the keys. Above: Leslie Dix and her three children offer thanks to all who helped them with their new home.

Snow Hill Chief of Police Nicholas Perugino spoke of how he had once chased suspects across the formerly vacant lot that has now become a welcome part of a growing community.

 

 

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