Women Under Construction Network

Mission

To educate, motivate, and empower women of all ages facing critical needs at home, using actual home repair tools and their life parallels. We are repairing homes, building women and changing lives!

Causes

Home Improvement & Repairs , Homeless & Housing , Women , Women's Centers

Programs

Our initiatives provide home repair, home goods, appliances, and groceries for women and their children. Past programs have included seminars on financial stability, self-esteem, community housing project facility collaborations and temporary housing assistance. Power Tool Socials - a series of events that provide home repair demonstrations, household tips and encouraging words that motivate and empower women. The WILAH Project: Through the WILAH Project, single mothers and women from underserved communities learn a myriad of home repair skills that help them maintain their largest financial investment: their home. Additionally, the project provides a means of building self-confidence that helps participants become more productive, self-sufficient citizens. ​ In the first phase of the program, instructors teach selected women to use household tools (i.e. hammers, saws, power drills, etc.) and provide the opportunity to apply the learned skills in a simulated at home repair setting. In the second phase, motivational speakers and counselors teach positive life principles and challenge, motivate and inspire the women through tool/life parallels.

Demographics

Women of all ages (and their familes) facing critical needs at home.

Areas

The city of Birmingham and five central AL areas.