Sheri Bueckert shows off Habitat website

The hunt is on for two families in the Southeast who are in need of an affordable home they can call their own.  As we reported several weeks ago the Southeast chapter of Habitat For Humanity has been revived.  Family Selection Committee Chair Sheri Bueckert says the team is now in place to start screening candidates.  "We will be doing presentations for families who are interested applicants for the Habitat for Humanity housing.  We will work with the families and go through the selection process.  We will then do family interviews if they have qualified and select the families who would be most suitable for our place."

She says an information session has been planned.  "There is a family presentation that will take place January 30 at 7pm at La Broquerie Hotel.  Interested families need to attend this session and we will go over what Habitat for Humanity is and the criteria and eligibility for families.  From there you can take the applications and then we go into further detail about what's required."

Bueckert notes there is a lot of interest in the community for this program.  "We have had an excellent response to this program coming back to the Southeast.  Without even advertising, we had a lot of people inquiring how they can be involved by sitting on a committee, being involved in the program, supplying labour or cash to the project."

She adds a goal has been set for 2012.  "The land acquisition team has purchased a piece of land in La Broquerie where we are going to be doing a duplex.  This year we are going to be finding two families that would be suitable for this place.  This is the first year we are getting back in action so our goal this year is to get this duplex and get two families in the house and then move forward from there."

Bueckert expects construction will start by May.  "And then it will be about a ten month process till the families are in the home."