It was a mudslide of a morning the day that Yolanda Enoh picked up a shovel and broke ground on her family’s house — house No. 32, the 10th in a line of pastel homes dotting the periphery of Adams Park in Gadsden.
But the less-than-perfect weather didn’t dampen her buoyant spirits.
“I’m happy. Surprised, but happy,” Enoh said.
It’s quite a marker for the mother of two, who longs for the day she and her daughter, McKyaella, and son, Nyzsa, have a place of their own.
“She’s been in the pipeline (waiting for a home) for more than a year now,” said Steve Scharfenberg, president of Gadsden-Etowah Habitat for Humanity. “She already has more than 200 hours of sweat equity done.”
What that means is that Enoh has done work alongside volunteers building Habitat homes for others in her soon-to-be new neighborhood, and she’ll spend 100 or so more hours alongside the volunteers from Etowah Baptist Association, which is sponsoring her home.
Just as the Habitat house had been on Enoh’s horizon for months, it had been on Etowah Association’s as well — the two just hadn’t met yet.
“We have been setting aside funds for several years for this project. But we didn’t know until today that the home would be for the Enoh family,” said Gary Cardwell, director of missions for Etowah Association.
Cardwell and other Etowah Association personnel, as well as two local pastors, came out for the dedication service May 4.
Although they helped the Enoh family officially “break ground” on the home they will build together, the foundation had been laid by another volunteer team the previous weekend.
It’s a good place for the volunteers from Etowah Association churches to start in the coming weeks, Cardwell said.
And it’s a good picture of good things to come, Scharfenberg added. (TAB)
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