You can read our December newsletter here.

Update -- thanks to Santa and the elves for a fun afternon. CHBC News coverage here. Capital News article here. "[A]rguably... this year's most unique Christmas event." More great pics at SNAP Okanagan. Read More....

Many thanks to the staff of the Home Depots of Kelowna, West Kelowna and Vernon for raising over $13,000 during the recent Paper Hammer campaign.

Habitat for Humanity Kelowna is very pleased to announce that it has been awarded a ten thousand dollar grant from the Royal Bank of Canada Foundation.  The monies will be used toward the current Phase Two Elk Road on the Westside. Currently being built by Okanagan College residential construction students, the finished duplex will be sold to low-income families.  In the photo, HFH Kelowna board co-chair Harri Henschler thanks Daryn S. Reece, manager at RBC Westbank branch, for the $10,000 donRead More....

Thanks to photographers Penny Pfahl, Rick Williamson and Hugh Pett. Click on each thumbnail for larger picture. [gallery link="file"]

Habitat for Humanity Kelowna’s next build project will be in partnership wiRead More....

Habitat for Humanity Kelowna is holding two public information nights for low-income working families with children who are interested in applying to become partner families with HFH Kelowna. Partner families help build their own homes with 500 hours of sweat equity and HFH Kelowna finances the mortgage. No down payment is required. HFH Kelowna is building a duplex on the Westside commencing in April 2011 for occupancy in the fall. One information meeting will be held in Kelowna and another oRead More....

David A. Smith of the Affordable Housing Institute (AHI) explains: "When governments effectively protect private property, citizens invest in housing with their cash, their enterprise, and their sweat. When governments do not, as in Zimbabwe in 2005, capital and citizens flee, causing a country to sink into poverty, violence, and eventual anarchy." Therefore, basic rights such as property law are a first necessary reqRead More....

A great group of high-energy guys from Capital Interiors answered our call for volunteers to help us hang drywall at the Elk Road build. They moved so fast it was hard to get good pictures of them, but we had a great day at the build site on Saturday and got a lot done. Thank you to Mike Hein for organizing. Way to go, guys. Visit our Facebook page for more pictures. Read More....

Six-year-old Anita was excited that when her mother and father told her their family was leaving Baghdad to go on vacation in neighbouring Jordan, but she couldn’t understand why her motheRead More....