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Habitat for Humanity International - Bangladesh is an ecumenical Christian housing ministry. Founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller, HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat for Humanity works with people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need. Our mission is to promote sustainable development, evident through our work in more than 3,000 communities in some 100 countries. Habitat has built, repaired and renovated nearly 250,000 homes, and more than one million people are living in homes they helped build and are buying through no-profit mortgages.
Habitat for Humanity International – Bangladesh has been active since 1999, working around the country to provide support to those most in need. We work closely with communities, volunteers, partner organizations and NGOs, taking a holistic approach to development.
The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 and 12 additional UN texts explicitly recognize the right to adequate housing as an integral part of the right to an adequate standard of living. The declaration states, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing…”
Over three decades, working with families in nearly 100 countries, Habitat has demonstrated that building homes also builds a foundation for families to break the cycle of poverty and transform the lives of families. It is the gateway to improved family health, better schooling, and enhanced household economic well being. It positively impacts the UN Millennium Development Goals that seek to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health and combat diseases.
Habitat’s mission has the greatest affinity to MDG Goal 7: “Ensure environmental sustainability”, and addresses the goal’s three sub-targets; to integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs, including reversing the loss of environmental resources; to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water; and to achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.
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