The next Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity (GNHFH) Playhouse Project fundraiser is scheduled for Sept. 15, on site at The Biergarten at Anheuser-Busch in Merrimack.

“We love this new fundraiser, which helps us to tell the community more about the Habitat for Humanity cause, while partnering with sponsors to build playhouses that ultimately provides children with a safe place to play and imagine what home means to them,” Executive Director Christa Tsechrintzis, said. “Funds raised go toward building new houses. This is the second time this event is happening locally.

“Sponsorships of these playhouses ensures that Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity raises the funds necessary to support our programs, and places our sponsor’s names in front of a large, engaged, and passionate community of donors, volunteers, and community leaders during the event, and the days and the weeks to follow.”

The goal is to secure sponsorship for six playhouses, at a cost of $2500 each. Sponsors can build the house, but GNHFH can match financial sponsors with volunteer builders, if

necessary.

On the scheduled build day in October, Habitat volunteers and staff will be on hand all day to guide builders and their teams through the entire process, which took about five hours last year.

Habitat for Humanity also provides all the materials the teams need like paint, paintbrushes, rollers, tools, protective paper/plastic, safety equipment, and cleanup supplies.

Each playhouse is pre-cut by Habitat volunteer crews before the build day and are brought to the build sight at Anheuser-Busch in Merrimack, so builders can fabricate and decorate the structures.

Builders are encouraged to be creative in their decorating and can pick the colors of their design, use stickers, decals, stencils, and add window treatments.

The 2022 playhouse project was supported by Kimball Physics, Law Family Companies, Positive Street Art, Front Door Agency Board of Directors, United Way of Greater Nashua, The Biergarten at Anheuser-Busch, and the Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors.

The Kimball Physics playhouse, with a Space and Cosmos theme, was raffled off after previously built.

The Barulli/Hickey/Tsechrintzis families won the raffle and then donated the playhouse to one of their family’s charities of choice: St. Jude Children’s Hospital, through the local Fitness for A Cure gala/auction held in March.

Kimball Physics’ Engineering Manager James Popovitch, who was part of the build team shared that partnering with GNHFH, was perfectly aligned with their company’s mission “To advance humankind by doing good physics – specifically electron optics and vacuum physics – and all the while growing, being good citizens, making a living, and having fun.”

The United Way of Greater Nashua was the raffle winner of the playhouse painted by Positive Street Art.

This playhouse was retrofitted to be a 24-hour food pantry drop off location, now housed at the Crossway Christian Church in Nashua. It has a full size door and shelving to hold donated non-perishable food items.

For information on how you can volunteer or financially support Habitat for Humanity, reach out to Executive Director Christa Tsechrintzis at christa.tsechrintzis@nashuahabitat.org or by calling 603-883-0295, ext. 11.