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Volunteer with Habitat |
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| 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! |
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| Volunteering at Construction Site |
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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! |
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| Volunteering in Non-Construction Related Activities |
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| 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. |
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| Corporate |
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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 vpindia@hfhindia.org |
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Youth
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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 |
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| 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. |
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| Signature BUILDS |
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| 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. |
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| Volunteer team from the Republic of Ireland build at Bawana |
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Volunteers with the homeowner family |
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A Twelve member team from the Republic of Ireland volunteered for a 5 day building activity at Bawana, Delhi. Bawana is a resettlement colony located 45 Kms from Delhi city. The build began on the 30th May continuing till the 3rd June 2011.
The volunteers worked on two houses, from dismantling the old structure to digging the foundation and lying of bricks to polishing walls. Though the condition was harsh and challenging with the temperature soaring, the volunteers thoroughly enjoyed their build experience.
On the last day of the build a closing ceremony was organized where the homeowners thanked the volunteers for their hard work, commitment and dedication. They also invited the team to come again when their house is fully completed.
The team leaders also thanked the home-owners for giving them the opportunity to work with them in their house and for all the kindness shown to them.
‘The whole trip was a fantastic experience, I was very proud of how the team performed in such a tough, hot conditions’ said Louise.
‘Working hard on sites and seeing the progress we made and meeting the families was such a great experience’ said Alisa proudly. |
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| IBM - Corporate Service Corps Programme for HFH India |
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| The Habitat Resource Centre-Chennai, India, during 28 Feb-25 March 2011 benefitted from an active volunteer participationof three highly skilled IBMers from France, Germany andCanada under the IBM Corporate Service Corps Program. TheIBMers volunteered at Chennai HRC to develop a branding &marketing strategy. |
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| Japanese Volunteers build homes with Habitat in India |
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The Japanese volunteers landed in Bengaluru to help build homes for the homeless just about the time an earthquake and tsunami rendered many of their own countrymen homeless. The 19 Japanese students who were on a week-long trip to build homes in Kothanur village of North Bengaluru. In fact, they landed in the city on 11th March, just an hour before devastation struck Japan.
The group comprising students from the universities at Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe come from cities that have escaped nature’s wrath but that hadn’t lessened the stress. Many are yet to hear from their near and dear ones in Tokyo.
J. Sreedhar, a small-time hotelier in Kothanur, was touched seeing his long-cherished dream home being built by this enthusiastic group of Japanese. “They are here to help me with foundation work when people in their own country are homeless. What more can I ask?’’ says Sreedhar.
Sreedhar is among the few beneficiaries of Habitat for Humanity, India’s project.
“I had wondered to myself why i build house every day. But i met many people in India, and meeting them changed my thoughts. I knew there were many victims in Japan but to help someone should not carried away by the state border. There was nothing which I could do then but to work hard in India.” |
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| Keiko Azuma, Volunteer at Bengaluru |
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| Cathay Pacific staff, Bollywood actor build with HFH India |
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| Twenty-five staff from Cathay Pacific Airways and Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi recently worked on a Habitat for Humanity India build. They helped to construct walls and cast a septic tank for slum dwellersin Bawana, 40km from the Indiancapital New Delhi. Cathay Pacific staff previously built with HFH India inMumbai, western India. |
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| CITI Group Community Day 23rd Oct. 2010 |
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More than 80 Citi India staff build with Habitat. Volunteers from Citi India helping to prepare the floor of a house on a Habitat build in New Delhi. To mark Citi’s fifth Global Community Day at the end of October, morethan 80 employees from Citi India worked on Habitat builds in New Delhi, Maharashtra and Chennai. The volunteers laid bricks, worked on floors, plastered and undertook excavationworks alongside home partner families on nine houses.
Pramit Jhaveri CEO, Citi India said: “I am extremely happy to see tremendous franchise-wide involvement of employees in this initiative, one |
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| that is truly reflective of our ‘One Citi’ culture. Volunteerism is a key aspect of our Citizenship program globally and in India. Global Community Day has created a unique global platform for allof us to volunteer and has created a bond between employees and their NGO/cause, enabling them to consistently contribute toward positively impacting our societies.” |
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| Habitat Club at Bengaluru |
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Mrs. Anuradha Monga, Principal BIS was presented with a wooden trowel by Joseph Mathai, Director Habitat Resource Centre Bengaluru as a token of appreciation |
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Students Washing the Teacher’ s cars |
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40 students from Bangalore International School are a part of the Habitat club in Bengaluru. The school principal, Mrs. Anuradha Monga has encouraged the students to organize fund raising events to raise resources rather than bringing checks from their parents.
As a part of their fundraising event the students washed their teacher’s cars & organized sale (craft & bake). The funds raised will go into build houses in Bengaluru. The students recently donated a roofing sheet, 2 windows and a door to one of the needy homepartners.
Similarly students from Indus International School, Canadian International School, and Stonehill International School have shown active interest in partnering with Habitat for Humanity to create awareness on poverty housing and homelessness. |
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Take a stand. Get Involved. Help Build Homes! |
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For more details on the volunteer program write to vpindia@hfhindia.org |
