Habitat for Humanity

Vision

“A world where everyone has a decent place to live”

Mission

Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

Principles of the Mission

  1. Demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ

We undertake our work, demonstrating the love and teachings of Jesus Christ, in all our deeds, respecting the belief that love and grace abound for everyone, and that we should be “the feet and the hand” of that love and that grace in our world. We belief that through faith, the minuscule can be multiplied to achieve something magnificent, also through the faith the respectful relations between the people can thrive.

  1. Focus on Housing

We have chosen, as our way to show the love of God, the creation of opportunities for all the people live in a decent housing. We put faith in action when we help to build, renovate and preserve houses, and working in association with others to accelerate and enlarge the Access to a decent housing as a foundation to break the cycle of poverty.

  1. Advocate for adequate housing

In answer to the call of the prophet Micah to do justice, love the mercy and walk with humility with God, we promote the adequate housing and affordable to everyone, and support the commitment to the global community with housing s basic human right. We advocate for fair housing policies, equitable to eliminate the obstacles that vulnerable populations face to Access to an adequate housing; and in all our work we’ll seek to set the subject of housing in the hearts and minds of the people, in such impact that the inadequate housing becomes an inacceptable matter in social, political and religious level.

  1. To Promote Dignity and Hope

We belief that no one can live worthily till everyone can do it. We belief that each person has something to contribute, and something to win, creating communities, where everyone has a decent and affordable to live. We belief dignity and hope are accomplished in a better way through responsible, equal and transparent partnerships.

  1. Supporting transforming, sustainable community development,

We consider that we achieve the success when our work transform lives and promotes social, economic, spiritual positive change and long lasting into the community when is based in mutual trust and shared achievements, and when show responsible stewardship in all the resources that have been trusted.

History

Habitat for Humanity Honduras is a private civil development association, non-profit, apolitical, non-governmental, of Cristian nature, with its own property. Obtained its legal entity on 1993. The first houses were built in a village called San Isidro, that belongs to the county of Santa Cruz de Yojoa. Its National Office is located at the city of San Pedro Sula and counts with seven regional offices located at: Santa Cruz de Yojoa, San Pedro Sula, Siguatepeque, Tegucigalpa, La Ceiba, Copan, and Aguán.

Habitat for Humanity Honduras has supported more than 37,266 Honduran families in the construction or improvement of their housing, benefiting to more than160 thousand Hondurans and with an average of 3,000 housing solutions each year.

 

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