Habitat for Humanity helps Chino family with repairs

For the 20th time in 2018, a low-income family has been given helped, and sometimes rescued from calamity, by the A Brush With Kindness program of Pomona Valley Habitat for Humanity.

The program has completed needed repairs for a senior disabled mother Sharon Alford and daughter Josephine Alford in the Lamplighter mobile home complex in Chino. The ABWK put in 174 work hours completing a facelift of the home, averting possible eviction of the family from the park.

The A Brush With Kindness program is related to Habitat for Humanity’s better-known homebuilding program for low-income families. ABWK helps those who cannot help themselves due to limited resources with relatively minor repairs and upgrades to the exterior of their homes.

In the case of the residence, repairs that would have cost more than $8,000 were completed by 27 Habitat for Humanity volunteers. It began in La Verne desperate to get repairs completed to save their home.

“After a home visit and a review of their property and application, I assured them we could help them resolve the noted violations and many other problem areas I saw that needed to be corrected as well,” explained Reggie Varra, chairman of the program and interim Executive The Alfords had been ordered to have the improvements completed by up in plenty of time before Christmas. The work completed included replacing stairsteps and shirting, washing the home and driveway area, pruning and trimming landscaping and painting numerous areas of the property, said Varra.

It was the 20th ABWK project completed in the year with two others underway in Chino and Rancho Cucamonga scheduled to be The ABWK program is available to assist low-income seniors and families to make often-costly needed repairs and improvements for those living between West Covina and Rancho Cucamonga and from the San Gabriel Mountains south to Chino.

To learn more, please call Habitat at (909) 596-7098.

– Contributed by Habitat for Humanity