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In 1976 Habitat for Humanity was founded with the sole aim of tackling poverty housing on a global scale. Thirty two years later we are working in over 90 countries around the world and have built 300,000 homes in partnership with people in need of safe, decent housing … (about 1/2).
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About 2/2 … Our vision and values:
Homeowner family from the Dominican RepublicEvery morning one third of the world’s population – that’s two billion people – will wake up in appalling poverty … squalid, spirit-crushing poverty. Most were born into those conditions and many will die in them … too many will die as a consequence of them.
Poverty housing damages people’s lives in so many ways. It’s dirty, smelly and often unsafe, it affects people’s health and wellbeing; their children’s education; their employment prospects. But most of all, poverty housing traps people in poverty and robs them of hope and opportunity. It oppresses the soul and keeps the poorest people poor.
In 1976 Habitat for Humanity was founded with the sole aim of tackling poverty housing on a global scale. More than thirty years later we are working in 90 countries around the world and have built 300,000 homes in partnership with people in need of safe, decent housing.
This year, over one and a half million people around the world will wake up every morning and remember the appalling conditions they endured before building with Habitat for Humanity. Thankfully, for those people, squalid living conditions are now just a bad memory … (full text).
Some websites you could also visit: LAW.com (US); AmericanLawyer.com; Incisive Media.com; Phil for Humanity.