On Tuesday, August 12th, Connecticut Sun players Asjha Jones, Tamika Whitmore, Barbara Turner, Jamie Carey, Ketia Swanier and Jolene Anderson joined volunteers from Habitat for Humanity of Southeastern Connecticut in renovating a home for a family in need in New London.
Players participated in a morning of renovation from 8:15-11:30 a.m. at the home on Broad Street. They hung sheetrock in the majority of rooms in the home as well as putting up mud over the depressions in the sheetrock made by screws holding it to the walls.
Habitat for Humanity of Southeastern Connecticut is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), which was founded in 1976 by Millard and Linda Fuller in Georgia. HFHI is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry which seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Organized in 1987, Habitat for Humanity of Southeastern Connecticut (HFHSECT) has constructed or rehabilitated 36 homes in the local area using volunteer labor and donated building material or material purchased with donated funds.