Local single mother, Martha Rebollar, honored at Hard Hates & Heels event and will earn Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity home later this year built by women volunteers.
This was the second annual Dallas Habitat to Host the Second Annual Hard Hats & Heels Event, which raises funds for ‘Women Build Dallas’ and affordable housing for women in our city.
Martha Rebollar, a local woman who immigrated to Texas with her mother when she was 23, will
earn this year’s Women Build Dallas home, an initiative of Dallas Habitat, partly funded by the
Hard Hats & Heels event. Martha is a 59-year-old single mother of two and is currently working
at Parkland Hospital where she is pursuing her nursing license.
Martha will reside in the home with her daughter and grandson and is currently helping to build it
alongside other Habitat volunteers–most of them women, as part of Women Build Dallas’
mission. Construction is scheduled to be complete in August/Sept. of this year.
In fact, 69 percent of people who earn Habitat homes are women head of households and 41
percent of those women are single mothers. Martha is also representative of the Area Median
Income (AMI) that falls at or below the 80 percent threshold required to earn a Habitat home.
Hard Hats & Heels is a key fundraising event for the Women Build Dallas initiative, a program of
Dallas Habitat for Humanity. In the last five years, Women Build Dallas has raised more than $1
million to empower, educate, and unite women to build and advocate for affordable housing.
The Hard Hats & Heels event will also include a silent auction featuring a signed Dallas Cowboys football and a signed guitar from Willie Nelson and the Doobie Brothers, to name a
few.
About Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity
Through affordable, quality homeownership opportunities, financial education, advocacy, and neighborhood empowerment programs, Dallas Habitat transforms families, revitalizes neighborhoods, and is working together to build a better Dallas. Strategically bringing together
public and private funding, community leadership and vision, and thousands of volunteers — we will break the cycle of poverty and transform our communities. Using affordable homeownership
as an anchor for hope, change, and stability, Dallas Habitat has served more than 2,100 low-income families since 1986, resulting in an investment of nearly $200 million in more than 25 Dallas area neighborhoods. Learn more at www.dallasareahabitat.org.
About Women Build Dallas
Women Build, an international movement founded by Habitat for Humanity, invests in the future of women by empowering, educating and uniting women to build and advocate for affordable housing. Since its inception in 1991, Women Build has grown across international borders encouraging women everywhere to advocate for affordable housing in their city. Now in its fifth year, Women Build Dallas is the local chapter of this initiative that consists of five local events to raise awareness, funds, and solicit volunteers, all culminating in the unveiling of a newly constructed home for a deserving woman in Dallas County. For more information visit: Women Build Dallas.
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