Habitat for Humanity

The very first non-for profit organization I had worked for was Habitat for Humanity. Habitat is an organization that raises the money and builds affordable housing for people who would not be able to afford a place to live otherwise. What happens is that other people help to fundraise the money to pay for the supplies for the house and then volunteers come in to actually build the house. They teach you how to do whatever part of the job you are doing on the site, and all you have to do is come in rearing to go in comfortable cloths ready to work. It’s a lot of fun and one of the more hands on organizations out there!

After Katrina my school actually built a house in pieces to be shipped down to one of the areas which had been struck. Habitat for Humanity can be found all over the United States and all over the world!

Now after the disasters in China and Myanmar they are working on building teams to work on rebuilding homes over there as well.

If you would like more information you can go to:

http://www.habitat.org/

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