FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Nashua – Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity is participating in the “Take A Hike for Humanity” event to be held at Blue Hills Reservation in Milton, Massachusetts and Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey, New Hampshire on Saturday the 30^th and Sunday the 31^st of May this year. 

“One thing we feel will make this year’s event particularly successful is that participants can register online, email friends, relatives, and colleagues and collect pledges through our website” said Peter Dobratz, the organization’s Vice-President and one of the liaisons between “Take a Hike for Humanity” and the Nashua Habitat affiliate. Public Relations Committee Chairman Ed Lopez added: “We are only now launching a campaign to recruit participants and volunteers for the event, but we have noticed substantial activity on the website as a result of ‘word-of-mouth’ alone. To date we have collected pledges from all over New England but also from places as far away as Texas and even the United Kingdom.”

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.  Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.

To participate in the Hike, please visit www.takeahikeforhumanity.org.  You can register as an individual or team at the website and you can specify which affiliate you wish your pledges to be directed to. “We hope people will help steer pledges toward the Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity affiliate – but the most important thing is for people to get out there and support the mission of Habitat for Humanity and to hike with fellow volunteers and their families – this is a great way to meet new people and get involved” said Lopez.

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If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Peter Dobratz or Ed Lopez, please call Ed Lopez at 603-883-0295 or email Ed at ed.lopez@nashabitat.org.  To schedule an interview with event coordinator Ron Dyer please call 603-626-3944.

Come join us at our annual Take a Hike for Humanity hike-a-thon fundraiser.  This is our major fundraiser each year.  Hike with us at Mt. Monadnock in Jaffrey, NH or Blue Hills Reserve in Milton, MA either on Saturday May 30 or Sunday May 31, 2009.

This year, we’re launching a new website so that people can register for the hike in advance:

http://takeahikeforhumanity.dojiggy.com/

Once you’ve registered, you can create a personalized fundraising webpage which you can email out to friends and family asking for support.  Here are some examples of hiker pages from our board of directors:
http://takeahikeforhumanity.dojiggy.com/LopezReyesFamily
http://takeahikeforhumanity.dojiggy.com/peterdobratz

Learn more about the hike

Thanks for your support,
Peter Dobratz