CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — There's a house on 4th Street in Alice that is going up quickly, and that's because it's being built by a group of men and women known as RV Care-A-Vanners.
Care-A-Vanners have been helping Jim Wells County Habitat for Humanity for years. The city of Alice is just one of their many stops around the country where they are putting hammer to the nail.
Victoria Gonzalez's future home is built by Care-A-Vanners, and events such as the JWC Habitat Fundraiser -- which being held from 6-9 p.m. Sunday at the Merchants Building at the Jim Wells County Fairgrounds -- help cover the costs for building homes such as Gonzalez's.
The Alice bookkeeper told 3NEWS that her family greatly appreciates the assistance.
”For them to be able to do this yearly for people like myself, to help families, it’s a blessing," she said.
3NEWS asked Construction Supervisor Roger Harvey about what the group of volunteers represents.
”A Care-A-Vanner is a person that has a motorhome or a trailer, maybe a fifth wheel and they can more or less go to the website and look up and see a habitat build," he said. "And if they have those accommodations you can sign up for a build. They go to that location when they are supposed to and get with a team leader and they build a house.”
Tom Wilcox is a Care-A-Vanner and said that he enjoys giving back to the community.
"This is the seventh year in a row that we’ve been here. We love the people, the people of Alice are wonderful people," he said.
Sandra Bowen is one of the members with the Jim Wells County Habitat for Humanity board. She told 3NEWS that without the volunteers it would be tough to be able to do a house each year for the past 20 years.
”I don’t think so, I don’t think we would be able to," she said. "They're volunteers and they know how to do this from the ground up.”
The volunteers will have the house ready for Gonzalez by Mother’s Day, and they will then move on to wherever their next project takes them.