Habitat for Humanity affiliates across the U.S. are leading Team Up service projects to help people build connections across differences with others. Truman Heritage Habitat’s Team Up project brought an intergenerational group together to renovate two homes in Eastern Jackson County, Missouri.
This project will focus on helping build safe, decent housing for communities living in extreme poverty in the Indian states of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Odisha and Tamil Nadu.
Habitat has worked with communities in Quang Nam province for over 15 years, and it’s home to marginalized groups with great needs. This project will focus on building and showing examples of good, affordable latrines to help alleviate the sanitation issues these households face.
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 Habitat already works in the Indian states of Maharashtra, Odisha and Tamil Nadu, this project would support the building of more proper sanitation units with toilets, water tanks and handwashing stations.
Low-income families are bearing the greatest brunt of the impact of climate change. At Habitat, we partner with financial institutions from around the world to provide the products and services that families need to build a stronger home for themselves.
Donated product from Whirlpool Corporation has helped Habitat affiliates build more homes, helping even more families realize their dream of homeownership.
Over the next year, InSinkErator, a Whirlpool Corporation brand, will donate a Badger 1 Model Garbage Disposal for each new Habitat home construction or rehabilitation as well as critical home repair projects including kitchen sink replacements.
In a new issue brief, Habitat uncovers a massive and growing blind spot in the discourse around climate change-induced migration and adaptation efforts.
Habitat for Humanity partners with people of all backgrounds year-round to help build decent housing, and our affiliate-run Pride Builds bring together local members of the LGBTQ+ community, allies and homeowners to work side-by-side on the build site.