On Wednesday night, the Hamilton Firefighters held their Fill Your Bowl For Habitat event at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, raising funds for Habitat For Humanity’s 2008 Hamilton Building Project.
Firefighters served their station’s secret soup along with gourmet soups prepared by local chefs. Ticats Nick Setta and Casey Printers were on hand greeting guests and getting behind the counters to dish out a few bowls of soup themselves.
Each ticket allowed patrons to taste a variety of delicious chowders, broths and bisques, and gave them the unique opportunity to slide into the cockpit of an authentic WWII trainer or a real jet fighter, while on a guided tour of the museum.
All those in attendance took home a pottery bowl crafted by a local artist, as well as an assortment of door prizes and items up for bid in a silent auction, with all donations going to the Habitat For Humanity.
Founded in 1976, Habitat for Humanity International is an independent, non-profit housing program dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing by building homes in partnership with families in need. Poverty is one of Hamilton’s biggest challenges with 20 percent of its citizens living at or below the poverty line.
When Habitat gets involved in a building project, homeowners contribute hundreds of hours of “sweat equity” to the construction of their own homes and then repay a long-term, no-interest mortgage. Mortgage costs are kept low by the use of volunteer labour and the generous donations of funds and building materials.
Habitat For Humanity Hamilton is committed to reducing the number of families living in poverty in our community. Internationally, Habitat has built more than 200,000 homes in over 100 countries around the world. By 2010, it is Habitat’s goal to be building 500 homes per year across Canada.
