HomeAid partners with two builders for shelter renovation
HomeAid Houston, Gryphon Builders and Jeff Hunt Building are combining resources to make renovations at the Krause Children’s Heart, a Katy region household treatment middle for women in disaster, ages 12 to 17. Both equally builders are members of the Greater Houston Builders Association’s Remodelers Council.
Allen Griffin, president of Gryphon Builders and Jeff Hunt, proprietor of Jeff Hunt Design are pooling their vendor and provider contacts along with many other council customers to remodel a restroom in the lobby area of the Center. The setting up by itself is dated, so plumbing and aesthetics are currently being upgraded and redesigned.
HomeAid Houston is a 501(c)(3) charity of the Greater Houston Builders Affiliation (GHBA). HomeAid is instrumental in identifying area companies in require of transformational housing for the homeless and then establishing the team of builders, suppliers and sponsors to build them at nominal value.
Krause Heart serves youthful girls who have survived terribly tough conditions. Quite a few of them arrive at Krause following going through intense abuse or neglect and many have been taken off from their residences or from foster care. At Krause, they begin to expand and mend through in-depth clinical treatment, individual enhancement activities and non secular treatment in a risk-free placing. Women continue to be an regular of 6 to eight months and start off to come to feel a restored sense of hope for their foreseeable future.
“This undertaking appealed to me for various explanations,” said Griffin, “the initially getting that the Heart is acquiring a plaque in memory of Leslie King, a single of GHBA’s most revered builders and persons in our market. Also, remaining able to supply my design management in partnership with HomeAid and a different great buddy and nicely-respected builder, Jeff Hunt, made doing work on the remodel satisfying in lots of approaches. I get pleasure from what I do skillfully, and when I can do that to better the lives of teenagers in crisis, there is not superior emotion than that. HomeAid can make the method quick, as they are these an professional and specialist corporation.”
“I echo Allen’s good reasons for staying a builder captain on the Krause Middle,” explained Hunt. “Knowing the Middle will be honoring the memory of Leslie King will make performing on the remodel worthwhile. I am also impressed with the products and services Krause Centre delivers the teenagers who are living there. A father of a teenage lady myself, I have a sense for the issues these young ones experience, so providing my construction administration experience to the rework was a organic action. HomeAid is a real husband or wife on the task and offers assistance during the design.”
For additional details on HomeAid Houston go to www.homeaidhouston.org or phone 281-970-8970.