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Habitat for Humanity receives grant

July 05, 2018 12:00 am • Last Updated: July 05, 2018 8:39 am

Left to right: Ericka Winstead, First VP, Loan Operations Manager of Eastern Savings Bank; Terri O’Rourke, Executive Director & CEO, Habitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut; Cynthia Neeley — AVP, Residential Mortgage Underwriter at Eastern Savings Bank.

Habitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut recently received a $1,000 grant from the Eastern Savings Bank Foundation to help build a home on Raymond Hill Road in Montville. The home wil be the fourth built in Montville.

Families selected to purchase a home typically earn 30-50 percent of the region’s median income and complete 400 hours of volunteer work to help construct their home. To date, Habitat for Humanity has built 78 homes in eastern Connecticut. For more information, visit habitatect.org.

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