Families in need of affordable housing live everywhere: villages, small towns, sprawling cities, your community. What does housing need look like where you live?
In order to improve that access to land and ensure more security of tenure in Bolivia, Habitat is training female heads of household to serve as community leaders and secure tenure promoters in the city of Cochabamba.
In October, we asked you to share with us the ways that you help Habitat. Check out the graphic we created from your answers and share it with your friends.
When we ask Habitat homeowners what their homes make possible for them, their answers — just as they share them with us — fit together like poetry. The powerful poetry of lives changed and futures transformed.
Earlier this year, Habitat Brazil partnered with young volunteers from Guilherme Dummont Villares and Saint Francis high schools to improve the living conditions of 18 families in the favela of Heliopolis.
Choosing to put aside rivalries, Wisconsin seniors from seven high schools raised more than 110,000 to build a home with Greater Fox Cities Area Habitat.