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Home Interiors' Candle and CD sales support Cookeville High School Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter

Local Home Interiors consultants are asking area businesses to buy candles to help build homes. Consultants from Cathie Johnson's Home Interiors unit are asking business owners to help raise funds for Habitat for Humanity and support the CHS chapter through purchasing bulk quantities of Home Interiors' Habitat for Humanity Candle and Holiday CD.

"The sales of this Habitat candle and holiday cd are making an impact twice for the mission of Habitat for Humanity" says Cathie Johnson, unit leader. "At a recent meeting we were discussing the fact that a percentage of sales on this particular candle goes to Habitat for Humanity International and the unit in our division that sells the most Habitat candles will be rewarded with the funds to actually build a Women Build Habitat home in 2005 in their own community. With the local Habitat affiliate building a Women Build house right now, we thought this was a perfect time to promote this special Habitat Candle".

"In addition to the percentage going to Habitat for Humanity International, we needed an idea to help the local affiliate today" says Jennifer Luna, a consultant in the Johnson Unit. "That's when the idea of selling candles in bulk to business owners and giving the candles to the Cookeville High School Chapter to resell was created."

Locally the candles & CD's bought by businesses will be given to the CHS students and they can turn around and sell the candles individually to friends, neighbors, students, and more. The students will receive 100 percent of the money collected from the sales.

"It's not very often that a student group can sell a product and keep one hundred percent of the proceeds, so the students were very excited about this opportunity." added Betty Suiter, CHS Math Teacher and sponsor of the CHS Chapter.

The Holiday CD includes songs from a variety of today's favorite artists. The candle is Apple Crisp Scented with the scent of fresh apples, toasted oatmeal, nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla. Approximate burn time on the candle is 40 hours. The students hope to sell the candles and CD's before Thanksgiving. Business owners wanting more information on this fundraising program should call Johnson at 528-2260.

More than half-a-million dollars has been raised for Habitat for Humanity nationwide by Home Interiors Decorating Consultants. A Pocketful of Hope Charites, the Home Interiors Charitable Foundation, is responsible for bringing consultants and volunteers together just this year to build 9 Habitat homes across the country.

Home Interiors is the largest direct seller of home décor products in North America. With more than 100,000 independent consultants, Home Interiors has been a household name for 47 years. Throughout the years, Home Interiors has donated more than $70 million to charitable causes and community organizations such as The American Heart Association, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and most recently Habitat for Humanity.

Habitat for Humanity understands the importance of involving the youth to secure the future of their movement in ridding the world of poverty housing. Thousands of high school and college students across the U.S. participate in campus chapters at their schools. Cookeville High School is only the second public high school in Tennessee to have a Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter.

Putnam County Habitat for Humanity is an ecumenical Christian organization, dedicated to ridding the community of substandard housing while providing affordable housing to those in need. For more information on PCHFH, call their office at 528-1711.