Companies Help Build a Home For a Single Mother in Need
Volunteers from Verizon and CA Technologies donate a day to helping Michelle Harris, a local single mother.
Hard hats and the ringing of hammers filled Dutch Lane Tuesday as about 20 volunteers from Verizon Communications, Inc. and CA Technologies donated their day to building a home for a family in need through Raritan Valley Habitat for Humanity's largest project. The home being built will be given to Michelle Harris and her 8-year-old son, Jonathan, who have spent the past five years living in a single, unheated room in a family member's basement. The house is being fully funded by Verizon and Cisco Systems, Inc. Harris's new house will be part of a nine-home Dutch Lane neighborhood being built by Raritan Valley Habitat for Humanity, and set to house 12 adults and 27 children when it is fully completed. At this point, two homes have already …
