Poverty Housing...

• threatens the health and welfare of millions. In Africa, Asia and Latin America, for example, at least lers live in “life-and-health-threatening” homes and neighborhoods because of poor housing and living conditions and the lack of adequate provision for sanitation, drainage, removal of garbage and health care.
• is not limited to the inner cities in the United States. The number of working families with critical housing needs in central cities is 1.2 million, while the number of working families with critical housing needs in the suburbs is 1.3 million.
• is a form of social oppression and is found in both low- and high-income regions of the world. The inability to make or to earn enough income to rent or buy a house, along with the lack of resources to meet food, clothing and medical needs, impacts both the physical quality of life and emotional well-being of families.
• can be addressed.
  

Habitat for Humanity International...

• is a grassroots Christian nonprofit organization dedicated to the elimination of poverty and substandard housing worldwide.
• believes that every person deserves, at least, a simple and decent place in which to live and grow into all that God intends them to be.
• builds or renovates houses in partnership with families who qualify for homeownership based on three criteria: need, a willingness to partner with HFH and the ability to repay a no-interest mortgage.
• works with people of all faiths and people of no faith.
• sells its houses at no profit, with no interest charged following a biblical mandate (Exodus 22:25).
• has built or renovated more than 100,000 houses worldwide since 1976.
  

Habitat Brings Home the Gold

In June, Habitat World magazine and two other areas within Habitat for Humanity International’s creative services department were honored by their peers for outstanding work.

Habitat World won four gold, one silver and two bronze awards in the Magazine Association of Georgia’s GAMMA Awards competition. This publishing contest recognizes publishing excellence among publications in the region.

Mike Chapman, was recognized by the International Publications Managers Association as one of the top six (out of 5,805) in-plant print managers in the United States and Australia. Chapman runs HFHI’s in-house print shop, and also manages the print production aspects of Habitat World.

The organization’s Web site (www.habitat.org) won top honors in the Excel Awards competition of the Society of National Association Publications. The site won a gold award for design excellence and a bronze award for general excellence.



Reprinted from Habitat World Magazine, August/September 2000.
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