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Returning refugees rebuild their lives
A country ravaged by the devastating effects of war, Burundi is still very much in mourning. With an estimated 300,000 people who lost their lives and more than a million refugees or internally displaced people, a significant amount still needs to be done to bring healing to the nation. Read More.
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Casualties of Ethnic Violence
Her name is Theresa Kanyonga. She is 15 years old, beautiful, soft-spoken and very sad. Six years ago, she lived with her mother, father and younger brother in a roomy, adobe-brick house set in the lush, rich hills of Burundi, East Africa. She attended school and church. Read More.
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Partnerships Provide Hope and Shelter for Displaced Families
In the mid-1990s, the small central African country of Burundi erupted in ethnic violence that killed some 300,000 people. Read More.
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A symbol of peace in a post-war country
Four-year-old Reine Asaad’s father was killed during the fighting which ensued between Christians and Muslims in the villages of southern Lebanon in the early 1980s. Read More
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Habitat for Humanity exceeds goals in Lebanon’s disaster reconstruction program
One year following the 2006 July War in Lebanon that destroyed and damaged thousands of homes in the southern part of the country. Read More
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Lebanon Story
“You wouldn’t believe the destruction we saw when we first visited Siddiquin” states Habitat National Director Dani El Tayar. “It was terrible. Read More.
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Rebuilding Lebanon
For 34 days from the end of July to August, fighting between the Israeli Defense Force and the Hezbollah political group visited an enormous amount of destruction to the infrastructure and homes of southern Lebanon, Beirut and parts of the Bekaa Valley. Read More.
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Active Programs – Lebanon
The July War of 2006 in Lebanon destroyed vital infrastructure and leveled buildings throughout the country, especially in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon. Read More.
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Youth build together in South Africa to effect lasting change
From 6 to 12 June about 1 800 young boys and girls built 24 houses in three provinces Mfuleni, Orange Farm and Umgababa. Read More.
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Habitat for Humanity South Africa plans Women Build
From 2 to 6 August 2010, 3375 volunteers will spend their days mixing cement, clearing rubble, carrying water and laying line after line of cement blocks – forming part of the biggest Women Build Habitat for Humanity South Africa has ever hosted. Read More.
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No Room, at the Station
We know that by participating in a Habitat for Humanity build, we have the opportunity to reach out and touch people in a way that would not otherwise be possible. Read More.
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Desmond Tutu Community Build
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu visited a Habitat for Humanity build site in the Mfuleni community near Cape Town, South Africa, on 30th May 2007. Read More.
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Shelter for the Orphans
Shara was a volunteer from the Christ Church Lutheran, based in Phoenix Arizona, part of a 15 strong global Thrivent partnership Global Village church group which included 2 pastors, Roger Ellis and Arnie Frank. Read More.
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Building a Community…
When families build their own homes with the help of local and international volunteers, they gain a stake in their community before they even move in. Read More.
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South Africa, January 13-16, 2006
Ghana and South Africa are both in sub-Saharan Africa. But they seem worlds apart. Read More.
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