From 2013-2024, the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity International and supported by InterAction, sponsored select graduate students through a fellowship, helping bolster the students’ research and futures in the humanitarian shelter and settlement sector.
Each year since 2007, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree on display in New York City is milled and donated to Habitat to use in construction projects. Lumber from the 2022 tree was used to build a deck and planter boxes at Sarah’s Habitat home in Corinth, New York.
Carter Work Project volunteers lend a hand to the Charlotte community’s work building a thriving neighborhood at the historic site where an all-Black, segregation-era school called Plato Price stood. The once-empty lot is being transformed into an affordable, vibrant neighborhood with single-family homes, walking paths, nature areas and a community meeting space.
With a little help, all of us have the potential to stand on our own. You can do something right now to help make that possible for another family.
Taking old pallets and turning them into a new sink vanity proves that reusable materials really can be found anywhere.
Hear from the Rev. Jeff Meyers about his firsthand experience with Habitat’s Global Village volunteer trips that left him and his students forever changed, and see how you can get involved today.
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.
“I feel strongly about the value of a stable home for children’s health and education.”
“A basic human requirement is to help and aid those in need. How can you not give?”