Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County will participate in Lowe's National Women Build Week by holding its first Women Build Day. Women volunteers will work from 8 am to 4 pm on a Habitat home under construction on St. Joseph's Lane in Emmitsburg.

Women volunteers are invited. Construction or home improvement experience is not required. Foundation work on the Habitat home on St. Joseph’s Lane began earlier this year.

The Women Build Day will be the culmination of construction clinics Lowe’s of Frederick sponsored for local women Habitat volunteers twice a week over a 12-week period. On May 10 women volunteers will hold a Women Build Day at the St. Joseph’s Lane construction site in Emmitsburg. The evening before, Habitat will break ground on its first Women Build home. Construction on this home on Madison Street for a single mother and her children should begin shortly.

Developed through the partnership between Lowe's and Habitat for Humanity, National Women Build Week celebrates the compassion, dedication, talents and abilities of women from all walks of life. The goal is to both showcase the accomplishments of Habitat's women volunteers and invite new women volunteers to join the effort to provide decent, safe, affordable housing.

The week before Mother's Day was selected for its significance to many volunteers, as families with children make up a staggering number of those in need of adequate housing. More than 12 million children, or one in six, live in poverty housing in the United States alone.

Lowe's underwrites the Habitat for Humanity Women Build program, bringing women from all walks of life together to learn construction skills and then use those skills to be part of the solution to poverty housing. Women volunteers have built more than 1,200 Habitat houses nationwide. On May 9 Habitat of Frederick will break ground on its first Women Build home toward which Lowe’s will contribute $5,000.

To volunteer or donate to this project, go to VolunteerUp, call (301) 698-2449; email volunteer@frederickhabitat.org; or visit www.frederickhabitat.org.

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