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Climate-resilient villages: Improve housing, sanitation and incomes for 500 vulnerable people in Indonesia
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.
Habitat continues long-term disaster recovery work in Puerto Rico
With the support of AbbVie, Habitat is working to create a sustainable impact in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria and help storm-affected homeowners like Rosa and Antonio repair their homes.
Habitat houses help families reach their full potential
Dina and her two children were able to move out of a crowded building they shared with 16 other renters and into their very own home thanks to Habitat for Humanity.
AmeriCorps members and Habitat for Humanity mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with community service
Habitat for Humanity’s annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project returns to Haiti
Disaster preparedness: Family communications plan
When a disaster strikes, your family might not be together, and communication channels might be down. It is important to plan how you will contact one another and discuss how you will communicate in different disaster situations.
OPIC Board Approves $45 Million To Support Housing Microfinance Lending by Habitat for Humanity
Hurricane recovery in Puerto Rico
Habitat for Humanity is committed to increasing access to safe, decent and affordable housing in Puerto Rico and assisting people on their “pathway to permanence” in securing shelter.
A gift of gratitude: Ernie’s story
It had been a year since Ernie, an outgoing 87-year-old U.S. Army veteran, had been outside on his own. After months of this kind of physical isolation, and months of encouragement from his social worker, Ernie applied for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Lowell’s Critical Home Repair Program.