habitat for humanity

Recently, hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes when a severe earthquake hit

the state of Gujarat in northern India. Every day millions of people world wide call our

streets their home. In cases like these, people may need a helping hand; Habitat for

Humanity is an organization working to put a roof over the worlds head, one house at a

time. Currently they are working with families all over the world to help get them off the

streets and into a home. Habitat for Humanity in India is working to build as many as a

thousand houses over the next three years for those who were left homeless by the

Habitat for Humanity (HFH) is a non-profit organizatio

. . .

These houses constructed by HFH are not simply given to the partner families. The houses are then sold to the partner families at no profit, and financed

with affordable no interest loans.

The partner families are required to work ,along with volunteers, on the construction of

the houses. Families that are in need of housing apply to a

local HFH member for help. These affiliates coordinate the building of

the houses and the selection of the families. The organization works with

low income individuals and families world wide who are in need of housing. Since the start

of the organization in 1976 HFH has built more than one hundred thousand houses,

providing shelter for over half a million people in over two thousand communities world

wide. n that was founded in 1976

by a man named Millard Fuller and his wife Linda.

The cost of these houses range from eight hundred dollars in developing countries to

around fifty thousand dollars in the United States. The main goal of HFH is to

eventually end low income housing and homelessness. HFH is powered by volunteer labor and by donations of both money and building

materials.

Habitat for Humanity is a small group that has a big helping hand.

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. HFH works with the homeowner or “partner” families to build or refinish

simple but nice houses. HFH then takes the mortgage payments received from

the partner families and puts the money towards other housing projects.

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