There was little but bones and skin left after 300 people passed by Danny Kleinsasser’s hogs, but he wasn’t surprised.
“They’re hungry. They put in a hard day of work,” said Kleinsasser, who donated a whole hog barbecue for Winnipeg’s recent Habitat For Humanity build.
Habitat For Humanity is a charitable organization supported by churches and community groups that builds homes for people who can’t usually qualify for a mortgage.
The organization raises money and building supplies from donors and uses volunteer labour to construct urban and rural homes. The families that receive a home have to contribute hundreds of hours of sweat equity in order to qualify.
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Habitat For Humanity has hundreds of chapters in communities around the world. The Winnipeg chapter drew a lot of attention in 1991 when former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who has headed the organization, came to help out with a Winnipeg project.
This summer, the Winnipeg chapter built eight homes while the Steinbach chapter built two. One home is also being built in Selkirk. Winnipeg Habitat For Humanity chief executive officer Ken Bishop said it is never hard to get a project going in southeastern Manitoba.
“The support there is fantastic,” he said.
Kleinsasser operates a barbecue business on a farm near Stony Mountain, Man. He rents out backyard barbecue cookers that can cook entire hogs, and on Aug. 11 two pigs were quickly consumed by the 300 volunteers who gathered in a local church hall after a day of hammering, sawing and digging.
Kleinsasser said he may live in the country, but most of his business is with city people, so he likes to contribute.
“It’s a good way to help people,” he said.
“I get lots of support for my business from the city of Winnipeg.”
