Update:  You can drop off your donation at the UPS Store Westbank and we will follow up with a tax receipt.

Star is a single mother with two children, Kiara and Keelan. They live on the Westside.

Star and her husband adopted the children but Star’s marriage did not survive the discovery that both of the children have multiple special needs.

After the loss of her business and declaring bankruptcy in the wake of her divorce, Star was starting a new career as a long term care aide. But she sustained permanent injuries in a car accident and is now unable to work. Finding affordable housing is difficult for all low-income families – but Keelan uses a wheelchair and most of Star’s small income goes toward paying rent on wheel-chair accessible housing. With a small settlement from the car accident — for which no fault was attributed to her — Star wants to buy a home to take care of her children.

We want to help this family. Can you help us?

When Star’s children learned that Habitat for Humanity Kelowna had selected them to be a Habitat partner family, her son Keelan asked, “Mom, will this be our forever home?” Our goal is for these children to have a “forever” home so that Star does not have to move from place to place just to keep a roof over her children’s heads.

HFH Kelowna will finance a wheel-chair accessible home for Star and her family. In partnership with Accent Homes, Star will purchase a home in the Sierra Development on the Westside with a no-interest mortgage with payments geared to her income.

A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out
Habitat homes are not given away. The mortgage Star pays on this home will help build more Habitat houses, which in turn will help fund more houses. Your donation to Star’s Pay It Forward campaign is a gift that will keep giving for years to come.

We need to raise $125,000 to help Star and her family to purchase this home.

Your donation would make all the difference. Thank you. Please follow this link to make a donation — $10, $20, $200, whatever you can afford — to Star’s Pay It Forward fund.  If you prefer to mail in your donation, please make it payable to “Habitat for Humanity Kelowna” and send to:

Habitat for Humanity Kelowna
Box 25031 Mission Park PO
Kelowna, BC V1W 3Y7

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