Singer/songwriter Patti Scialfa (Springsteen) has helped raise the roof in concert halls around the world with the famous E Street Band, but on June 10^th she and her 17-year-old daughter, Jessica Springsteen, were helping raise the walls for Paterson Habitat's fourth Women Build house. 

Women Build houses are built by all-women volunteer construction crews and our Women Build 2009 house was a return engagement for both mother and daughter. Patti and Jessica were active volunteers on our Women Build house last year and supported Women Build 2009 as the honorary co-chairs.

For them, June 10^th was an afternoon of hands-on construction work highlighted by the raising of the second floor wall frames. “Working together taps us into the higher angels of our souls,” Patti told a group of other Women Build volunteers during a brief wall-raising ceremony. Many of the Women Build volunteers on hand were veterans of past Women Build projects. So are our two key corporate sponsors, the Lowe’s home improvement stores and Bank of America.

Lowe’s has underwritten Habitat for Humanity International's national Women Build program and Bank of America  stepped up for the second straight year as lead corporate sponsor for Paterson  Habitat’s Women Build house.  When the house is completed in the fall, it will be a new home for Brenda Quinones and her three daughters: Kaylah, 13, Tayah, 11, and Aaliyah, 7. (written by Bruce Brackett)