“One of the biggest steps I have ever taken”
Mario Fourney takes joy in providing his children with a safe, secure home to grow up in.
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.
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.
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.
“Habitat educated me,” says Yondella Hall. “I didn’t know leaking and standing water could affect my health.”
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.
After her old home was destroyed by storms, Alicia, her husband Eusebio, and her sons, Luis Fernando and Junior are now in a safe home thanks to Habitat Paraguay.
One of Habitat for Humanity’s Home is the Key families talks about the positive effects moving into their home has had on their children’s health.
Amanda teamed up with Drew Scott to build her Habitat home in Nashville.