Helping Hands

Workers carrying a board.

In June, as part of its ongoing commitment to health in the community, the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences partnered for the fifth time with Habitat for Humanity Manitoba to help construct a home for purchase by a Winnipeg family.

A total of 58 volunteers – students, faculty and staff representing dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and rehabilitation sciences – contributed labour to the Rady “Key to Health” project.

The five-day build took place at a Habitat development in Winnipeg’s Transcona area. A couple who came to Manitoba from Ethiopia and their four children will take ownership of the four-bedroom townhouse.

To make a donation to Key to Health, visit www.habitat.mb.ca/ donate-2/. In the form, under “Fund” select Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Team Build Day.

Two workers with yellow pipes.
Workers passing a piece of drywall to another worker.
Two women holding hammers