Girl Power at Wayland Affordable Housing Construction Site

WAYLAND, MA - Habitat for Humanity plans to build a two-family duplex right next to a home they built last summer on Stonebridge Road.

The project will be a part of National Women Build Week, in which women learn handy skills while helping families in need.

During the second week of May, teams of 10 to 15 women will visit the Wayland site to help build the home. The houses are being built on an "open space" parcel of land donated by the town.

"This is special because it's really women helping women succeed," Bonnie Biocchi, Habitat Director of Development, told Patch.

About 70 percent of Habitat homes are sold to single women heads-of-household, according to Biocchi.

"More and more children are living in substandard housing and a disproportionate number of those families are headed by women. Wage and gender discrimination have widened the gap for low wage working women, making decent housing an unattainable goal," Biocchi wrote in a letter to her building team.

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Photos courtesy of Bonnie Biocchi from last summer's build.