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Families partner with Habitat for Humanity in the U.S. and around the world to build better lives for themselves and their children. Learn more about the types of work we do to build a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

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Families in need of affordable housing live everywhere: small towns and villages, sprawling cities, your community. Housing need presents itself wherever people live and work, and it takes many forms and has far-reaching effects.While the vast majority of Americans feel stable and secure in their current situation, housing insecurity touches nearly half of adults at some point in their lives. A majority of Americans believe that it is challenging to find affordable quality housing in their communities and more than half of all adults say they have made at least one trade-off in order to cover their rent or mortgage. Such trade-offs may include taking second jobs, cutting back on health care and healthy food, and moving to less safe neighborhoods.
Across the globe, urban populations have increased rapidly, often outstripping available housing. A century ago, one out of every five people lived in urban areas; now, for the first time in human history, more than half of us do. In these circumstances — and in many others brought about by various policies, laws and systems — one of the biggest obstacles to a world where everyone has a decent and affordable place to live can be access to land for shelter in the first place.
In response to the ever-growing need for shelter in your community and around the world, Habitat works in many ways: new construction, repairs to existing homes, small loans for incremental building and home improvements, help establishing title and ownership to land, advocacy for better laws and systems, disaster prevention and recovery, and more.
The need for opportunity and self-reliance
Housing instability — including frequent moves, overcrowding, and the threat of eviction or foreclosure — creates stress, depression and hopelessness for far too many families.
Adults living in housing that they struggle to afford often describe themselves as less healthy, and the well-being and development of millions of children is compromised by living in insecure housing.
Families paying too high a percentage of their income for housing often find themselves making impossible choices. Rent or health care? Food or transportation?
A decent and affordable place to live helps families by freeing them from such physical and mental hardships and placing them on a path of new opportunity and increased confidence and self-reliance. A family’s partnership with Habitat means they have a stable place to live and to spend time together. An affordable mortgage or small loan means they have a chance to create savings and invest in their education. A decent roof over their heads establishes home as a place that protects — instead of endangering — their health.
Habitat works with families to help them acquire the access, skills and financial education necessary for them to be successful homeowners. By partnering with us, families seize the opportunity and possibility that decent, affordable housing represents. Through shelter, we empower.

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With your support, in fiscal year 2018 alone, we helped more than 8.7 million people, and an additional 2.2 million gained the potential to improve their living conditions through training and advocacy. We’ve accomplished all of this with the trowel and the power saw, to be sure, but also by working alongside families to help them access the tools they need for a better tomorrow. Sweat equity, affordability, empowerment.To put those instruments of such fundamental change in the hands of those who need them most, we also faithfully bring a few of our favorite tried-and-true tools to the workbench.Volunteerism, service, advocacy, awareness.These engines — fueled by your generous support — propel the inclusion, innovation and inspiration that are hallmarks of our work around the world.Thank you for everything that you do, every tool that you wield, as we work together to make this a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

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-Workplace Giving
-Corporate Giving
-Gifts-In-Kind Partnerships
-Cause Marketing

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Donation opportunities include:

Stock Donations

Donor Advised Funds

Case for Support

Monthly Donations

Donate Your Car

Goods and Materials

Honor and Memorial Gifts

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“It is just so beautiful,” 10-year-old Oliwia says, looking out of the window onto a meadow with wildﬂowers.
The young girl continues the tour of what will be her new house once construction is complete. She tears up a little as she talks about the old one. “I always cry when I tell this story,” she says. “I don’t know why.” After telling it, the tears are completely understandable.
Four years ago, a violent storm kicked up as Oliwia’s family slept. A 100-foot-tall tree came crashing down on their house. Rain started pouring in. “There was a big hole in the roof,” Oliwia says. Luckily no one was hurt, but officials declared her house uninhabitable.
Oliwia, her ﬁve siblings and parents ﬁrst went to live with Oliwia’s grandmother., but It was also damp, which made it hard for her little brother Antonii, who has asthma, to breathe. The family has been living in a temporary apartment in a health center.

After the storm, Oliwia’s parents were able to ﬁnd the resources to replace the roof and rebuild the ﬁrst ﬂoor, but so much more needed to be done. “Then I found information on the internet about Habitat for Humanity,” says Zoﬁa, Oliwia’s mom. “The response from Habitat was very swift.”
Habitat Poland has helped the family, providing loans to cover construction costs and hosting Global Village volunteer teams to help with the building. Oliwia loved painting pictures in the concrete with some of the volunteers. She remembers Rebecca from Texas, who sent the family a map of Texas. When it was time for the volunteers to go, they all did the good-bye dance, also known as the hokey pokey. “Even Dad, even though he never weeps, he was crying,” Oliwia says.She thinks about all of the love that has been poured into this house, the one that will offer her a room with a view. “I have a good feeling about it.”

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When Ben Frederick thinks back to his childhood, one thing stands out: the ever-present boxes in the closet.“I always had boxes in the closet because my family didn’t know if we were going to be living at a place for six months or a year or what,” He still recalls the strain of constantly moving  and how hard that was on the whole family.

“You get the tunnel vision of ‘What am I going to do this week? Are we going to make rent? He says. “So you don’t dream a lot you don’t think about what your five-year plan is. It’s a very closed and short-term vision because it’s about necessity.”
It wasn’t until Frederick’s parents became owners of their own home through what is now Saginaw-Shiawassee Habitat for Humanity that the family finally found the freedom to dream, to plan and to think outside of the moving boxes.
“Suddenly, Habitat took away one of the many key stress points of poverty."
Michigan State Representative Ben Frederick volunteers with Habitat.
“One of my most powerful memories is from right after we moved in to our Habitat house,” Frederick says. “I went out to the curb, and we threw the boxes away.”

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The events that Habitat For Humanity include:

AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon

Carter Work Project

Home Builders Blitz

World Habitat Day

Women Build

Home Preservation

Veterans Build

Youth Programs

Global Village

RV Care-A-Vanners

Collegiate Challenge

Habitat and Thrivent

Disaster Corps

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I'm passionate about Habitat for Humanity because I have always loved helping people,Making a change in the world,making people smile and laugh. For me it's about the people,not the experience or the publicity.I like giving to others what they haven't been able to have and the ability to change and make an improvement in their life.

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Habitat for Humanity is a non-governmental organization founded in 1976. Their mission is "Seeking to put God's love into action,Habitat  for Humanity brings people together to build homes,communities and hope."
https://www.habitat.org
(800) 422-4828
For Donation Information call: (229) 924-6935