Habitat for Humanity
Website: www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk
Join a Global Village challenge and you will have the opportunity to help a family in need build their own home, transforming their lives.
You will see another country and culture through the eyes of those who live there.
Along with 10-15 like-minded volunteers you will spend up to two weeks on location in your chosen country. You will discover what poverty housing is really all about as you immerse yourself in the local community and actually build a house hand-in-hand with a Habitat homepartner family.
You will be building most days. You may be plastering, installing plasterboard or insulation, painting, tiling, or brick-laying – whatever the task the master builders on site will ensure you learn all you need to know. You won’t have to do anything you feel uncomfortable with.
By working, sharing, eating and laughing together, you and the new homepartner, along with their friends and neighbours and other volunteers, will form a once in a lifetime team. As the new home is completed, you will have helped another family face the future with the certainty that leaking roofs, insect infestations and cramped conditions are things of the past.
As you build you will see a new hope grow in the people around you. Your hard work will give them the extra support they need to help break the poverty cycle that has kept them in such appalling conditions for so many years. You will come away from the experience having improved their lives forever.
During your free time you will be able to get to know the local people, language and culture, as well as join in with some fabulous excursions.
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