Japanese youth volunteers with future homeowners in Cambodia

Creating a positive impact

Youth supporters of Habitat Young Leaders Build share how they take meaningful action.

Screenshot of video marking Habitat's 40th anniversary in AP

Marking 40 years in Asia-Pacific

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Sreang and his wife Vanna at home in Battambang, Cambodia

Lifetime achievement

It took 10 years but Sreang helped ensure that his family and other residents of an informal settlement in Cambodia’s Battambang city could access secure tenure.

Mohan (third from left) and family at their house in Dhangadhi, Nepal

Journey to homeownership

“No one should be deprived of a home,” says Mohan, a former informal worker who is now a teacher and an advocate.

Jodu (right) with his wife Sita (left) and daughter Tenisha at their Nepal home

A Nepali family thrives

Jodu shares why building a home with Habitat has made all the difference.

Nurhayati at her home in Indonesia's West Java province

Empowering women through housing finance

A report “Her Home II” outlines challenges and provides recommendations for women accessing housing finance in Ghana, Senegal and Indonesia.

Sani and her husband Ace finished building their house in West Java, Indonesia, with housing microfinance loans under a Habitat-KOMIDA partnership

We did it!

With access to housing microfinance, Sani and Ace finally built their home. Learn how Habitat’s partnership with Indonesian microfinance institution KOMIDA changes lives.

Celebrating women's achievements

Marking the International Women’s Day in 2022, we share stories of women’s efforts to create a better and more sustainable future.

Thushanthini outside her home built with compressed stabilized earth blocks in Sri Lanka

New chapter in life

Through the EU-funded “Homes not Houses” project completed in June 2021, Sri Lankan families are building better lives.

Kitchy Dy (far left) with other volunteers in the Bistekville 4 community in Quezon City, Philippines

Small acts, big impact

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, youth supporters are finding tangible ways of supporting the cause of safe, affordable housing.

Samita rebuilt her house after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal

Opening the door to lasting solutions

Earthquake-affected Nepali families, who rebuilt their homes with Habitat, cite better health and educational prospects among positive changes.

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PHNOM PENH (March 2, 2023) Homeowner Than with japanese volunteers

Habitat for Humanity welcomes first regional volunteers to build homes in Asia-Pacific since the pandemic started

March 02, 2023

Habitat for Humanity welcomes 136 international volunteers to several locations in the Asia-Pacific region, where they worked alongside community members and local families building their own decent, affordable houses.

Indian worker at a site for manufactured sand

Habitat's FY22 annual report

November 23, 2022

Habitat for Humanity leverages advocacy and innovation to help 7.1 million people gain greater access to safe, decent and affordable housing in fiscal year 2022.

Habitat for Humanity invests in Cambodian water-access startup TapEffect

August 11, 2022

The investment marks the fifth anniversary of Habitat’s Shelter Venture Fund, which has already disbursed US$3 million in equity to 11 housing innovations.

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