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Shaun and his family look back at their first year as Habitat homeowners.

Els Palemene and her family moved into their West Auckland Habitat home in Massey, New Zealand, in June.

“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!”

Mario Fourney takes joy in providing his children with a safe, secure home to grow up in.

For teenagers Jamian and Jaquille, the best gift they’ve ever received is the home their mother built for them. Now the holidays are about celebrating the gifts the house keeps giving — a place to study, a place to have friends over, a place to create their family traditions.

While every Habitat house is built to keep families safe, warm and dry, their designs and layouts vary based on local style, climate, cultural customs and locally available materials. 

“Habitat educated me,” says Yondella Hall. “I didn’t know leaking and standing water could affect my health.”

Carlos and his family had long dreamed of someday having a stable place to call home, and now they do, thanks to Habitat for Humanity.