Habitat Events
Friendship Build. Bangladesh.
BANGLADESH: Friendship Build
The tea plantations and forests that roll across the hills of northern Bangladesh bring abundant harvests. But life can be hard for many of those who rely on seasonal work in the countryside. Habitat for Humanity is reaching out a hand of friendship to provide local workers and their families from Srimangal with
the opportunity to transform their lives by providing new environmentally-friendly earth-brick homes. The Friendship Build will inaugurate a new phase in Habitat for
Humanity’s work in Bangladesh. After celebrating helping 3,000 families improve their living conditions in its first dozen years, Habitat now plans to serve a further
4,000 families in just three years, by 2014.
Location: Sylhet (240 km. north of Dhaka)
Number of homes: 20
Volunteers needed: 100
Reconciliation Build. Sri Lanka
Build peace by building homes and community
Sri Lanka is a country on the mend after three decades of civil strife,
conflict and natural disasters including the 2004 tsunami. Hundreds
of thousands of homes were destroyed. Habitat for Humanity works to promote reconciliation between Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim communities, and to assist those who have been displaced and those seeking to return home. Be a Peace Builder. Join Habitat for Humanity’s Reconciliation Build in Sri Lanka. Be part of Habitat’s plan to build sustainable, environmentallyfriendly
homes and assist 5,000 families every year in Sri Lanka.
Time: August 5 to 11, 2012
Location: Negombo, Western Province (40 km. from Colombo)
Number of homes: 24
Volunteers needed: 100
Everest 2. Nepal.
NEPAL : Everest Build II
Return to majestic Himalayas to help families.
After the success of the 2010 Everest Build, Habitat for
Humanity
invites volunteers to return to one of the most beautiful parts of
the planet to build environmentally-friendly bamboo and Adobe
houses. This time Habitat for Humanity is working with indigenous
Dhanwar, Pariyar, and Sarki communities. Everest Build 2012 is also
a celebration of the 15,000 families in Nepal who have been helped
by Habitat for Humanity
in the past decade and a landmark on the path to assist 100,000
families to
have proper homes by 2016.
Time: October 7 to 13, 2012
Location: Dhulikhel, Kavre (40 km. from Kathmandu)
Number of homes: 40
Volunteers needed: 150
Eco Friendly Build. Mongolia
After the success of the first BLUE SKY BUILD in 2010, Habitat for
Humanity Mongolia is once again bringing together corporations,
individuals and partner organizations to build homes with local
families in need. Next summer, volunteers from all over the world
will join together
to shine a light on the scourge of substandard housing and
demonstrate what can be accomplished when families, communities and
nations come together to build a future where every man, woman and
child has a decent place to live.
BLUE SKY BUILD 2012 emphasizes building environmentally-friendly,
energy-efficient homes. Structures are designed take less wood to
build. More importantly, the homes use less fossil fuels to keep
warm in the harsh Mongolian winters. That means
reduced carbon and toxic emissions. And families can use money
saved on fuel bills for better food, better clothes, better
schooling, better medicines.
From 1st to 7th July 2012, volunteers will join families to build
20 energy-efficient houses in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
Immediately after celebrating the completion
of the homes, volunteers can join the celebrations for the Naadam
holidays, the country’ nationwide midsummer festival of
wrestling, horse racing and archery
