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Habitat launches Home Equals campaign

May 15, 2023

Habitat for Humanity and our partners around the world today launched a five-year campaign, called Home Equals, seeking policy changes at the local, national and global levels to increase access to adequate housing in informal settlements.

El fondo MicroBuild obtiene galardón por apoyar a más de un millón de familias

MicroBuild fund wins award for supporting more than one million families

January 06, 2023

Habitat for Humanity’s MicroBuild fund won the Habitat 2023 World Habitat Award, silver category, after allowing more than one million low-income families to improve or build their homes through small loans. The World Habitat Awards are the leading global housing awards. It is organized by World Habitat, in partnership with UN-Habitat, and is characterized by recognizing revolutionary ideas, projects or programs in housing.

Más de 7,1 millones de personas tienen hoy una vivienda segura

More than 7.1 million people now have a safe house

November 29, 2022

A concrete floor in a house provides safety, comfort, health, and empowerment for the family that lives there. This was taught to us by María Natalia from Guatemala, who now has a concrete floor in her home instead of a dirt floor. She makes a living weaving traditional Guatemalan embroidery. Today, she carries out her economic activity from the comfort of her home. She does it without pain in her knees due to the stones and irregularity of the dirt floor, nor does she inhale dust, nor do her textiles get dirty. Her story is part of Habitat for Humanity’s latest Annual Report 2022, which summarizes the results of the organization’s work, conducted in the fiscal year 2022, in more than 70 countries.

Participa en nuestro certamen de artes visuales por el agua

Participate in our visual arts contest for water

July 27, 2022

Habitat for Humanity International convenes visual artists from Latin America and the Caribbean to the Visual Arts Contest for the Regional Day of Action: Youth and Women’s Narratives for Action - For Water and Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean. For this contest, people over 15 years are invited to present an artwork with the theme: The lack of access to water and sanitation suffered by young people and women in Latin America and the Caribbean as a cause of inequality in urban and peri-urban areas.

Iniciativa busca sustituir 100 mil pisos de tierra por pisos de concreto en América Latina y el Caribe

100,000 floors to play on

April 28, 2022

Habitat for Humanity and the Inter-American Cement Federation (FICEM) have launched the initiative “100,000 floors to play on,” with the objective of replacing 100,000 dirt floors with concrete among Latin America and the Caribbean’s most vulnerable populations by 2028. Depending on the needs of each household, the project will also offer solutions such as access to water and improved stoves, in order to build a healthy and dignified environment for families’ sustainable and inclusive development.

Annual Report FY2021

April 27, 2022

Resilience. This word defined Habitat for Humanity in 2021. During this year, as an organization, we had to be more resilient than ever. Understanding that the pandemic was going to stay longer than projected and, therefore, we had to adjust.

Déficit cualitativo de vivienda en El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras supera los 3,9 millones de casas

Qualitative housing deficit in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras exceeds 3.9 million houses

February 11, 2022

Homes built with poor quality or scrap materials; dirt floors; mainly lacking potable water, toilets, or showers; and situated on land that isn’t theirs—these are the characteristics of more than 3.9 million Central American households in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Habitat for Humanity advocates for inclusive, resilient housing at COP26 climate change conference

November 02, 2021

Habitat for Humanity International is calling on delegates at the world’s premiere climate change conference to ensure efforts to reduce carbon emissions don’t raise the cost of housing while also helping the most vulnerable families adapt their homes to withstand rising seas, extreme temperatures and increasingly intense weather events.

Habitat for Humanity International and UN-Habitat renew partnership to address need for affordable housing around the world

October 21, 2021

As the world strives to recover from the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, calls to make safe and affordable housing a priority in local and national social and economic recovery efforts are growing. Understanding the critical role home plays in the lives of families around the world, Habitat for Humanity International and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme recently renewed their long-standing partnership to collaborate and promote the global need for affordable housing.