The Carpenter’s Gift
Written by David Rubel in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity and illustrated by Jim LaMarche, The Carpenter’s Gift celebrates an American tradition.
Written by David Rubel in collaboration with Habitat for Humanity and illustrated by Jim LaMarche, The Carpenter’s Gift celebrates an American tradition.
Recent Habitat sanitation projects in Fiji and Zambia have improved the lives of people and their communities.
Returning for its third year as a Home is the Key sponsor, At Home aims to help more families create a home they love.
On April 30, 2015, President Obama signed the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015, legislation supported by Habitat for Humanity International, enacting key energy efficiency provisions that will strengthen the economy, reduce pollution and produce significant energy savings.
“Every day I when wake up in this house and I sit in the back warming up my car or I sit in the front or I’m shoveling a sidewalk, I just look up at it and sometimes still can’t believe that I own this. This is mine!”
For the past 12 years, second graders at Louisiana’s Christ Episcopal School in Covington have raised money for Habitat St. Tammany West in a unique manner: an intra-school post office.
Kosuke Katsuki and Jun Tokunaga have volunteered with Habitat Japan since 2011, where they’ve built sturdy, decent homes, as well as a lasting friendship.
In order to improve that access to land and ensure more security of tenure in Bolivia, Habitat is training female heads of household to serve as community leaders and secure tenure promoters in the city of Cochabamba.
Recognizing that responding to disasters is not enough, Habitat and affiliated organizations around the world, especially those located in disaster-prone regions, work to reduce vulnerabilities and build community resilience.