Working At Habitat For Humanity
The
need for civilized and reasonably priced housing around the world is shocking.
Around 25 percent of the world's population, which is 1.5 billion people, live
in poor quality housing or do not have a home at all. People are forced to live
in horrible conditions; they often have no home suitable for living in and
sometimes no roofs and just open walkways as doors. In the United States there
are families living in poor conditions too. There are families living in
apartments meant for only 2 people, and yet it is packed with people. There are
also families living in run down housing projects in the inner city and it gets
even worse too.
Habitat for Humanity is building around the world, they are devoted to the idea
that all people deserve a decent place to live on rates they can afford to pay.
They work in partnership with volunteers, churches and synagogues,
organizations and the new homeowner families. Habitat for Humanity is doing a
great job at building so people can live and enjoy life.
Habitat is a nonprofit organization, and they do welcome all people to join as they build houses in partnership with those in need of satisfactory shelter. Since 1976, Habitat has constructed more than 125,000 houses in more than 80 countries; in this they built some 45,000 houses across the United States.
Habitat houses are purchased by the families
which will occupy the home. There are three main factors that make Habitat
homes reasonably priced to
low-income
people worldwide: Houses are sold at no profit and there is no interest charged
on the mortgage, homeowners and volunteers build the houses under trained
supervision, and other peoples provide financial support.
Inhabitants in the homes are chosen depending on the individual’s
needs and their ability to pay for the home in installments, and being able to
put in hours by working on Habitat houses. Habitat does not discriminate
according to race, religion or ethnic group when placing people in homes.
Throughout the world, the cost of Habitat
houses goes from as little as $800 in some developing
countries
to an average of $46,600 in the United States. In Phoenix the houses are going
for around $75,000.
Habitat is providing help and doing a great deed in so many
countries throughout the world. Habitat isn’t needed in the Baltic’s (Sweden,
Norway, Finland) anymore, because there are now homes for everyone in these
countries and nobody is left without shelter. I felt great after helping out
Habitat. I was putting up dry-wall, and working on the ceiling and various
walls doing this. I have a home and some people do not, I definitely feel a
need to help people that are not as
lucky
as I am. Habitat doesn’t help homeless people, but gives poor and working
families a chance to get a nice home to live in. Everybody deserves a good
place to live and habitat understands that.