About Disaster Response -- Habitat for Humanity Int'l 1
About Disaster Response
Disaster strikes in an instant, but shelter and housing needs remain
Supporting families affected by disasters requires immediate, comprehensive and collaborative actions. Long after humanitarian aid organizations have completed their relief work, the need for quality shelter and housing remains for months and years.
Habitat’s response to disasters
Habitat’s Disaster Response focuses on the housing needs that arise from natural disasters and humanitarian emergency conflicts. We meet the challenge of disasters and conflicts worldwide using a number of integrated approaches that revolve around our core competencies of sustainable shelter and housing solutions.
We offer expertise in technical information; program design and implementation; and disaster response policies, protocols and procedures. We also provide support and informational resources for disaster risk reduction ― helping communities in disaster-prone areas protect themselves against future threats.
More than 50,000 families worldwide have been served under Habitat’s disaster recovery programs.
By giving the communities the means to rebuild, Habitat has been able to support, empower and work with families in building recovery shelter and housing solutions.
Disaster Response programs
Learn more about our active and past disaster response programs.
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