“Every day I when wake up in this house and I sit in the back warming up my car or I sit in the front or I’m shoveling a sidewalk, I just look up at it and sometimes still can’t believe that I own this. This is mine!”
Mario Fourney takes joy in providing his children with a safe, secure home to grow up in.
For teenagers Jamian and Jaquille, the best gift they’ve ever received is the home their mother built for them. Now the holidays are about celebrating the gifts the house keeps giving — a place to study, a place to have friends over, a place to create their family traditions.
While every Habitat house is built to keep families safe, warm and dry, their designs and layouts vary based on local style, climate, cultural customs and locally available materials.
Whether you shop for Habitat for Humanity merchandise on the Habitat Store online or shop at your local Habitat for Humanity ReStore, your purchase helps Habitat build homes, communities and hope.
“Habitat educated me,” says Yondella Hall. “I didn’t know leaking and standing water could affect my health.”
Mauk, Indonesia, is home to 90,000 people, with an average of four to five individuals per household. Around 35,000 live in extreme poverty. This project will help build decent, climate-resilient housing to help improve the lives of people living in extremely poor conditions.
Carlos and his family had long dreamed of someday having a stable place to call home, and now they do, thanks to Habitat for Humanity.
