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International Women’s Day

March 8, 2012

Happy International Women’s Day! Check out this link to watch a video on some of the inspirational women that Habitat for Humanity works with. Click here for the Video Watch the Story of Dorcas Phiri and how Habitat for Humanity Zambia helped Dorcas and her siblings build an adequate home. Dorcas Phiri and her siblings [...]

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Property Grabbing – a case study Mozambique

March 7, 2012

There are many instances where women have less access to adequate housing. Property grabbing is common; when a woman’s husband dies she and her children are often removed from their home by distant male relatives. In many cases, when a man dies of HIV/Aids, the blame falls on the wife who not only is kicked [...]

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Women and Secure Tenure

March 6, 2012

Around the world, many families cannot legally claim the house in which they live or the land in which their lives are rooted. Secure tenure means the freedom to live without fear of eviction. Lack of security makes poverty housing worse, depriving people of even the most basic physical, economic and psychological stability in which [...]

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Celebrating International Women’s Day

March 5, 2012

Celebrating International Women’s Day  Women’s Rights and Housing This week we celebrate International Women’s Day to acknowledge the contribution of women in their struggle for equality, peace and development. International Women’s Day recognises that securing peace and social progress and the full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms requires the participation, equality and development [...]

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Haitian families move into their new homes

February 15, 2012

Habitat representatives, partner families, local donors, partners, officials and supporters celebrate a new beginning in Habitat’s Santo community. LÉOGÂNE, Haiti  – Yesterday,155 families left homeless by the 2010 earthquake took possession of their new permanent homes in Habitat for Humanity’s Santo community in Léogâne, 18 miles west of Port-au-Prince and considered to be the epicenter [...]

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Owning your own home creates Stability

February 14, 2012

Recent research by Habitat for Humanity (HFH) Australia has found that the stability of owning your home was the biggest change to partner families’ lives since moving into their Habitat home.

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Habitat on the Hill

February 8, 2012

To reach our goal of safe, decent, affordable shelter for all, Habitat for Humanity works to change the systems, attitudes and policies that can lead to inadequate housing. Over the next few days Habitat’s leaders, volunteers and supporters will gather in Washington DC for our 6th annual advocacy and legislative conference.  This event brings people [...]

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Haiti’s Lesson For Us All

January 27, 2012

Mark Andrews, Habitat for Humanity International’s vice president for Haiti recovery, reflects on the last two years in Haiti. It’s hard to believe that it’s been two years since that awful day. I wasn’t in Haiti. In fact, I’d never been. But I remember the first news flashes from Port-au-Prince, and I remember where I [...]

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Rebuilding Haiti – Sustainable Solutions

January 26, 2012

Joseph Phénol Henrilus is one of the many workers hired to help Habitat improve the lives of earthquake-affected families by building transitional shelters. Working in Habitat’s workshop in Cabaret, Joseph preps the steel anchors for each shelter.

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Are you our next Communications Intern?

January 25, 2012

It’s fair to say that in Ireland today the majority of young people between the ages of twenty and twenty-five have probably done or are currently doing internships. In a climate where jobs are scare internships have become just another rung on the career ladder. Unfortunately, for many out there internships can fail to provide [...]

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