Volunteers involved in Aiken County Habitat for Humanity's latest Women Build construction project on McCormick Street took a break with a breakfast celebration May 2 in honor of National Women Build Week.
From May 2 to May 10, up to 15,000 women across the country are expected to come together to help build affordable housing in their communities.
Women Build's national sponsor, Lowe's, donated nearly $2 million to this year's National Women Build Week, and since 2003 has committed more than $63 million to Habitat, helping more than 4,000 families improve their living conditions.
In Aiken County, Lowe's on Whiskey Road has provided free training clinics, materials and support in numerous other ways to make the local Women Build program successful over the past 9 years.
During the breakfast celebration, local Women Build Committee Co-Chairwoman Judy Miller said the home currently under construction is the ninth Women Build house in Aiken County, and will be one of four Habitat homes completed on the block at McCormick Street and Hampton Avenue by the end of 2015.
Miller's committee co-chairwoman, Judy Sennett, said more than 90 different volunteers - 70 of them women - have participated in constructing this year's Habitat Women Build home. The group has included male "super-advisors," students from USC Aiken and soldiers from Fort Gordon,
The guest speakers were Pastor Gerald Haynes and Aiken City Council members Lessie Price and Gayle Diggs.
Mozone's house is scheduled to be finished in mid or late June.
For more information about Women Build, call 642-9295 (extension 301) or visit Aiken County Habitat for Humanity's website: www.habitataiken.org.