Huff Project
June 25-27 in Beaverton 

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Ms. Huff is a single lady who has owned her small 1949 Beaverton home for 26-years.  She is a substitute teacher in the Hillsboro school system, and has been unemployed during COVID.  She has depended upon unemployment and a small amount of savings to get by, and currently spends her days tackling home-maintenance projects and visiting her 92-year-old mother. She needed help with some very large repair items that where beyond her expertise or resources.  This was a pretty big job!

Our volunteer team provided the following work over a very hot week:

• Demo'd & replaced existing soffits
• Repaired water damage to window trim & plywood under exist. vinyl siding, installed vinyl J-channel around all windows.
• Replaced old wooden single-paned windows and door along back of house
• Demoed existing roof, repaired structure and plywood as necessary, prepared for roofing

PARTNERS:
After volunteers finish the above tasks, our partners from Ability Plus Roofing will be donating the installation of roofing materials which are being donated by Allied Building Products.  

After the project ended, Ms. Huff sent the following emails to Catalyst staff and volunteers:

I just wanted to send a quick & immediate 
THANK-YOU … For ALL the hard work-in the BOILING heat, for all the joyfulness, for encouraging & including me to partake in the delicious food & rewarding fellowship… 

There simply are not words sufficient to the depth of my gratitude & appreciation to each and every single individual at Catalyst who saw me, and wanted to and reached out to help, to each and every volunteer who so cheerfully gave & endured truly* testing circumstances to do so, yet each time I expressed my deep & heartfelt thanks, replied, smiling, 
“No problem!”

I am completely bowled over by the generosity of what I have been given-both materially & to my soul.
I am just thankful beyond measure to be Sooo Abundantly Blessed. 
THANK-YOU!!!

I am so thankful I no longer have the weight of endless worry about the deteriorated state of my home on top of everything else. That tremendous relief, and being able to have a sense of pride in ownership at how fresh & new my home looks now, over the daily hammer of humiliation over its previous dilapidated appearance and my sense of powerlessness surrounding that, is difficult to put into words. 

I wonder if the Catalyst team - all of you who are so kind-hearted, working so hard, so generously, always with a smile - truly know the impact that makes? 

Deepest Gratitude,

Ms. Huff