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Habitat for Humanity is going to build more homes in Wichita. One of the first will go up quickly, with a $60,000 donation from Koch Industries and volunteer labor from Koch employees.
Habitat has enough of its own money to put up three more and is hoping to attracts donors to build two more, totaling six, all of these in a parcel of land along Victoria between 43rd Street South and 44th Street South. They plan to call the neighborhood South Village.
Eventually, said Linda Stewart, executive director of Wichita Habitat for Humanity Inc., the charity hopes to build 45 homes for lower-income people on the site.
Koch has donated to Habitat before, including money and volunteer time in tornado-destroyed Greensburg. The company likes how Habitat asks that future Habitat homeowners help build their dwellings, encouraging hard work and pride of ownership, said Susan Addington, a Koch official. But construction money is sometimes harder to come by, which was why Koch wanted to put up some money, she said.
Habitat hopes to build all six houses in one week — which isn't a stretch, because volunteers and skilled workers for the charity have done this sort of thing before. They've designated June 17-25 as Wonder Week 2010.
Stewart, in a news conference Monday, said the new homes will be a welcome benefit to low-income people in this economy.
