housing microfinance impact
Housing microfinance is a doorway to stability and self-reliance. In Kenya, clients report a significant increase in the quality of life with the use of housing loans.
Housing microfinance is a doorway to stability and self-reliance. In Kenya, clients report a significant increase in the quality of life with the use of housing loans.
Habitat’s ShelterTech Accelerator, designed by its Terwilliger Center, has selected five Kenyan start-ups and two scale-ups that provide affordable housing solutions to start investment negotiations.
“We used to have very small apartments,” Alma Mushi says of Albania’s Communist period from 1944 to 1991. Alma serves as deputy marketing director for Fondi BESA, Albania’s largest microfinance institution. “In my father’s house, there were eight or nine people living in two rooms and one kitchen. Everyone was living like that, with two or three sons (and their wives) in the same small apartment.”
Partnership between Habitat Kenya and Samsung South Korea builds a new secondary school in rural Kenya.
Flooding in Malawi has affected nearly one million people causing them to leave their homes and lose possessions. Emergency shelter and sanitation are in urgent demand.
Habitat for Humanity works with many companies to eradicate poverty housing. Our corporate partners’ donations of funds or services help us to continue providing families with homes and the hope of a better life. We are grateful for their kind support.