Habitat for Humanity uses donation to help Wicomico Co.

window. a local insurance company gives back to their community–donating to the habitat for humanity of wicomico county the philip w. tawes insurance agency took part in farmers of salem’s “earn more, give” contest to raise money for wicomico county for the second year in a row. for every policy written–farmers of salem donated fifteen dollars to the agency’s local habitat for humanity branch tawes agency was able to donate three-hundred and ninety dollars to habitat for humanity in wicomico county. 22:11:41 i’m so excited the opportunity to have a donation from farmers of salem-to be a part of their big incentive program was really fabulous 22:11:51 farmers of salem and its participating agents were able to raise a total of 10 thousand dollars in all. habitat for humanity of wicomico county is one of many counties in maryland that can put the money to good use. 47 abc’s dani bozinni has the story. 22:12:37 so the needs in wicomico county are truly enormous we have over 600 homeless children in the wicomico county schools –so these are children that don’t have a permanent address 22:12:49 track one habitat for humanity is doing their best to serve low-income families in the area. 22:14:43 children need stability and affordable housing provides that 22:14:50 track two in order to build these houses–they need money – and volunteers. holligoss tells 47 abc that right now there is a four-year waiting list for subsidized housing making it extremely different for people who need a home to get one– 22:17:21so if we can take a family that’s hardworking and get them out of subsidized housing and owning a habitat home then that opens up another home, another opportunity for maybe a homeless family to get that subsidized housing 22:17:34 track three they currently have six partner families right now in the county that will end up buying habitat homes by june 2017 but those six homes aren’t a walk in the park — it takes about two-thousand volunteer hours to build just one house 22:17:38 so if we can serve five or more families every year then you know we’re making a big difference 22:17:44 track five dani bozzini 47 abc in other news –