Disabled Army veteran celebrates finished Habitat Home in Veterans Place
Jul. 26—On July 23, Smyrna-based Habitat for Humanity of NW Metro Atlanta dedicated a Habitat home to U.S. Army veteran Kelly Price in Veterans Place in Douglasville.
Price is a 30-year-old disabled single mom with three young children. She has overcome a great deal and has not let the fact that she has a disability stop her from achieving anything that she sets her mind to — including earning a Habitat home.
House sponsors include Chapelhill Church in Douglasville and Jimmy DeFoor, owner of DeFoor Plumbing. Additional contributors and multiple volunteer groups have joined to help build the house as well, including Stallings Insurance Agency, Georgia Tech School of Building Construction, North Metro Church, and Our Relentless Church.
Long-time Habitat volunteer Craig Thiman served as the house leader. Pastor Darius Elder, Care Pastor with Chapelhill Church, blessed the home and presented Price and her family with a Bible. She is grateful not only to become a homeowner, but that she will have a community of veteran neighbors who support one another.
For more information about the organization, visit habitatnwma.org.
