OAKLAND PARK, FLA. (WSVN) – Almost 150 volunteers are creating a community from the ground up in Oakland Park.<\/p>\n
The \u201cSeminole Hard Rock Women Build,\u201d hosted by Habitat for Humanity, began the construction of what will be known as Moss Estates on Friday morning.<\/p>\n
WSVN-7, ABC Miami, City Home and Florida Girls Giving Back, among others, sponsor the project.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when you get a group of women together who are determined, amazing things happen,\u201d said Ashley Shea, sponsor and donor of Autonation.<\/p>\n
Ten families have qualified for the annual project, which helps provide homeownership to those for whom it might otherwise be out of reach.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese ten homes will give these families a place to put down roots, make memories and build a future,\u201d said Donor Sandra Moss of Moss Construction.<\/p>\n
Those future homeowners are working alongside the volunteers for this project.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have to put in 300 hours for the other homes and then their own home,\u201d said Nancy Daly, a chair of the Women Build Committee. \u201cYes, they are building their homes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tashierra Richardson, the mother of a teenage son, is putting in her time as one of the new homeowners.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been up since 1 this morning. I had to work, and I left work and came straight here,\u201d said Richardson. \u201cSo I\u2019m here today and tomorrow. So it\u2019s very exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The need for woodwork, painting, digging and preparing for foundations and walls means there\u2019s so much more to do than construction.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey wanna feel safe, they wanna feel comfortable, they wanna feel like home is respite,\u201d said Maria Menendez, Habitat chair from GL Homes. \u201cYou know, this is their first homes, probably, and we want them to feel great about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
For these women, knowing they\u2019re helping their community and working alongside these future homeowners is what makes it all worth it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s nothing like the energy of all these women, and they bring other women alongside them,\u201d said Shea.<\/p>\n
Talisha Black, a mail carrier and mother of 2, qualified for the program, but she hadn\u2019t been told where her new home would be until Friday morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we\u2019re standing right over here,\u201d said an announcer as they informed Black that her home would be in Moss Estates.<\/p>\n
Just minutes later, she stood in what will, probably, be her home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a dream come true, like it is in real life, like oh my God, for real, like my dream is coming true,\u201d said Black. \u201cIt\u2019s true right now!\u201d<\/p>\n
Construction of the homes should be completed in about a year, just in time to celebrate the holidays in their new home.<\/p>\n
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