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500 Home Depot Employees, Vendors to Join HFHSA

Affordable Homes Maintain Strong Families, Thriving Neighborhoods and Sustainable Cities

WHAT: 500 volunteers from The Home Depot Foundation, The Home Depot Building Materials Department and their vendor partners, and organizers from Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio will work on 10 houses in the Palo Alto Subdivision.

WHEN: Wednesday, May 19, 2010

7:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Project Kick-Off
8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Construction on houses

WHERE: Palo Alto Community

PROJECT DETAILS:
• The Home Depot Foundation volunteers will be working in a 48 acre Habitat neighborhood on the south west side of San Antonio named Palo Alto Community. Habitat of San Antonio started building in this neighborhood in 2005 -- by mid 2011 all 282 Habitat for Humanity homes in this community will be completed!
• In 2009, The Home Depot Foundation in partnership with Habitat for Humanity International expanded its Partners in Sustainable Building Program (PSB) and is providing $30 Million in funds over a five year period to build 5,000 homes that meet nationally recognized green building standards.
• Through The Home Depot Foundation Framing Hope Program, in 2009, 89 Habitat for Humanity affiliates received $4.55 million in donated product to build and preserve affordable, healthy homes for low-income families throughout the U.S.

About The Home Depot Foundation:
Created in 2002, The Home Depot Foundation supports nonprofit organizations dedicated to creating and preserving healthy, affordable homes as the cornerstone of sustainable communities. The Foundation’s goal is for all families to have the opportunity to live in healthy, efficient homes they can afford over the long-term; to have access to safe, vibrant parks and greenspaces; and to receive the economic, social and environmental benefits of living in a sustainable community.

Since its formation, The Home Depot Foundation has granted $190 million to nonprofit organizations and supported the development of more than 95,000 homes, planted more than 1.2 million trees, and built or refurbished more than 1875 playgrounds, parks and greenspaces. For more information, visit www.homedepotfoundation.org and follow us on Twitter homedepotfdn.

About Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio:
Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio is an ecumenical Christian, non-profit housing organization working in partnership with hard working families in need to build simple, decent, affordable homes. Homes built with volunteer labor are sold to partner families with a 20 year zero percent interest mortgage.

Habitat for Humanity of San Antonio is distinguished as the first partner affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International. To date they have built 648 affordable homes in the San Antonio community. Their less than 2% foreclosure rate proves the effectiveness of their self help program -- they provide a “hand up, not a hand out”. To learn more, please visit www.habitatsa.org.