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  Please help us in welcoming Lauren Sarg to the Kaua'i Habitat 'ohana!! Lauren will be working alongside our staff and homebuyers as she dedicates 10 1/2 months to serving our community as an AmeriCorps Service Member. AmeriCorps is a voluntary civil society program that engages adults in public service work with a goal of "helping others and meeting critical needs...

  Like many on Kaua'i, Joel found himself renting a room from his mother-in-law and his growing family was running out of space. Joel, his wife, and two kids share a room and a bed. With a six year old and a nine month old, Joel has known for a while that he needs space for his family to grow. Longing...

As the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.” The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Jan. 20, 2020, marks the 25th anniversary of the day of service that celebrates the Civil Rights leader’s life and legacy. It is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage...

Happy Anniversary Kaua'i Habitat!! To celebrate our longevity our ReStore is marking down everything in the store 20% on Saturday, January 25, 2020! Stop by and celebrate by saving $$! It's our way of saying mahalo for supporting us all these years!...

[caption id="attachment_10740" align="alignnone" width="760"] Photo Credit - Dennis Fujimoto / The Garden Island[/caption] Thanks to a new county program, we now have another option for keeping items out of our landfill. Our ReStore can now ship overstocked items to those in need on Oahu and make room for new donations on our sales floor! Read more about it in this story...

Photo courtesy of Nareit Foundation We are ecstatic that the Nareit Foundation honored us with a $120,000.00 gift! This gift will go directly to building a home in our 'Ele'ele Iluna Subdivision and will definitely bring people together to build homes and hope on Kaua'i! Mahalo Nareit Foundation, we are huge fans of "The REIT Way!" Read more about this incredibly...

Have you heard of AmeriCorps? It's a wonderful program where amazing people commit time to improving lives by addressing critical needs in a community. At Kaua'i Habitat we have been blessed by so many caring individuals as they address the affordable housing crisis on Kaua'i. These service members dedicate 10 1/2 months of their lives building homes and hope with...

This past Saturday we were lucky enough to have two wonderful groups of volunteers show up to build #homesandhope. Students from Bringham Young University's Oahu campus, as well as members from All Saints Episcopal Church of Kapa'a, weren't afraid to get a little dirty as they took on the task of painting with future homebuyers in Anahola. In spite of...