Habitat For Humanity India :: Beyond Housing

Volunteer with Habitat

Habitat for Humanity invites all the interested to join hands to make its vision of “A world where everyone has a decent place to live”, a reality. Volunteers are its backbone who sustain its dream and materialize its vision into action. You can help Habitat India realize that vision by becoming a Habitat Volunteer!

Volunteering at Construction Site

Habitat for Humanity India offers volunteers the opportunity to take part in the “hands on” construction or renovation of houses across India through its four Resource Centers located at Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai.

Volunteering at a build site brings a volunteer face to face with the stark reality of poverty housing and provides a hands-on, grassroots experience to work alongside families and communities in building homes where lives can be lived with dignity and hope!

Volunteering in Non-Construction Related Activities

The services one can offer as a volunteer to Habitat India are varied and multifarious. Helping Habitat offices in a variety of roles, like support services, system management, documentation, data analysis, designing and managing web page; supporting the program and volunteer staff, managing build site logistics, etc. To qualify, one must be eighteen years or older, and be able to commit to a minimum term of 2 months. The other kinds of services one can render to Habitat from one’s own home are advocacy and fund raising.

Corporate
Habitat for Humanity India works with National and Multinational Business Houses and Organizations to address the challenges of poverty housing in India. Corporations partner with Habitat in numerous ways, whether through product donations, cause-marketing, financial support and mobilizing employees as Habitat volunteers or a combination of these possibilities.

Corporate partners working with Habitat India make a positive contribution to helping people to secure decent, affordable shelter. The experience offers a wealth of benefits both to the Organization as well as to the employees. It can raise company morale as well as better team working spirit among the staff. Also has an opportunity to gain tax relief on donations.

HFH India provides an opportunity to Corporate Houses to enhance Corporate Citizenship and address their CSR requirement in a very meaningful way by exposing their staff on actual build experience which will besides exposing them to real life realities also provides opportunities for team building. Employees are people with a heart to care and therefore look for ways to contribute hands-on and get involved in social change. The builds offer opportunities for co-workers to grow and bond beyond the scope of their jobs and to unite in the goal of helping those in need. Employees at every level get to see each other at their best. The opportunity also breaks monotony and isolation of many low-skilled jobs and helps achieve the HR goal to ensure that employees see themselves as more than just cogs in the wheel. The result -a very positive job image and a deepened relationship between, employers and employees! For Partnership with Habitat for Humanity write to habitatindia@hfhisa.net

Youth

Students and Youngsters help HFH India in eradicating poverty housing in their own special way. They take the lead in Campus Chapters, Community Youth Groups and Habitat Clubs to transform families and communities.

Habitat wants to capture the imagination, energy and hope of young people in order to productively and responsibly involve them as leaders in the work of Habitat Organized and led by young people, Habitat Campus Chapter, Community Youth Groups and Habitat Clubs are active in schools, colleges, universities and neighborhoods in different parts of the country. The young people – students through

Campus Chapters or Habitat Clubs can fulfill four main functions – Building homes; Fund Raising for Habitat; Advocacy on behalf of Habitat and Educating the student community on Poverty Housing and Habitat Ministry.

Signature BUILDS
Our special events help to bring about the required national attention to the issue of poverty housing and homelessness and hence serve as an exciting time for awareness-building, service with lots of buzz and fun! The events will witness the participation of several high-profile personalities, celebrities and other key-stakeholders, with their sleeves rolled up and working alongside families and volunteers.

PEACE BUILD 2009
A Peace Build is in offing to bring Volunteers from Conflict-Stricken nations under one banner to help build homes and render a united global voice against poverty housing and for a world of Peace! This would be an annual feature.
Pilot Project - December 2009

WOMEN BUILD – 2010

National and International Women Volunteers will join together to raise awareness of poverty housing and its impact on women in particular through a mass volunteer build at Bangalore from 08th to 17th March 2010. The event will kick-off on the International Women’s day and will see some raw power of women in action!