This holiday season has been especially joyful for Lisa Muldrow and her two children. The family spent their first Christmas in a new home purchased through the Darlington County Habitat for Humanity home ownership program.
At the dedication ceremony hosted by Darlington County Habitat officials and volunteers on Dec. 13, the family received a Bible and the keys to their home.
The Muldrow family, Lisa and her daughter, Laquana, and son, Shykime Alford, have been involved in the Habitat home ownership program for more than a year. Muldrow is an employee of Medford Nursing Center in Darlington.
Darlington County Habitat is a locally-run affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, a non-profit, ecumenical Christian housing organization. Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people in need to build decent, affordable housing. The houses then are sold to those in need at no profit and with no interest charged.
Volunteers provide most of the labor, and individual and corporate donors provide money and materials to build Habitat houses. Partner families themselves invest hundreds of hours of labor or "sweat equity" into building their homes and the homes of others. Their mortgage payments go into a revolving fund for Habitat that is used to build more houses.
The Muldrow home is the 16th dedicated by Darlington County Habitat. Two more homes are currently under construction. The organization strives to build an equal number of homes in both Hartsville and Darlington.
Darlington County Habitat for Humanity also has a Resale Store in Hartsville at 102 Washington Street. The ReStore is open six days a week and provides a major source of funding for our building program.
For information about applying for the homeownership program, volunteering or the ReStore, contact Executive Director Mark Haenchen at (843) 383-8500 or the Darlington County Habitat for Humanity ReStore at (843) 383-8517. Visit them on the Web at www.darcohabitat.org.
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