The El Dorado Habitat for Humanity was recently awarded a Community Revitalization Grant from H&R Block. With these funds, the group has planned improvements to two neighborhoods in El Dorado.
When Farai Harreld got pregnant with her first child, she looked around and realized she needed to rethink her consumption habits. "I was flabbergasted that we had accumulated so much stuff - and at the time we were only 25," says Harreld, a writer and birth worker who co-founded Black Minimalists. She and her husband had recently bought their first house, which was smaller than their previous place. "It really just made me look at my footprint in my home and in the world and [consider] what kind of life I wanted to live with my child."
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