As families in Puerto Rico work to rebuild their lives, an assembly of Habitat for Humanity volunteers is working to make the rebuild process a little easier.
Volunteers rallied in Covington Tuesday to put together 2,000 shelter repair kits including 5-gallon buckets of hammers, nails, gloves and more.
The project is part of the nonprofit’s #HabitatHammersBack campaign for hurricane relief.
‘Habitat is also present on the ground in Puerto Rico,” volunteer Nevil Eastwood said. “We have a local habitat entity in Puerto Rico, and we work closely with them to find out what houses need repairs, and we work on that as far as materials that went in the kits.”
Once complete, the kits will be shipped to Puerto Rico with the hope families can begin small repairs and return home.
“Habitat has a real good role to play in Puerto Rico," Eastwood said. “We have good history and certainly we can make good impact on the families there.”
In addition to the shelter repair kits for Puerto Rico, Habitat for Humanity is also assisting more than 2,000 families in both Texas and Florida as part of hurricane response.
