Sophie Cooke, Habitat for Humanity Australia's Regional Program Manager for South Asia, shares her experience of volunteering and leading a Global Village team to Nepal last month to help with the disaster recovery…
On 20 July 2015, 135 leaders from Grant Thornton Australia travelled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia to build homes for ten disadvantaged families as part of our Global Village program.
In December last year, Global Village volunteers travelled to Cambodia to build Sokhorn a new home. This is her story.
In South Australia, we have started construction on another new home and are continuing bushfire recovery efforts.
At the end of September, global leaders came together at the UN headquarters in New York to affirm the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will guide global development efforts through 2030.
Across all of the countries we work in, disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a crucial component of almost every program. Resourcing communities with the materials, skills and knowledge is essential in order to…
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It is hard to imagine what it must be like living amid the devastation that has been wrought on countries such as Vanuatu and Nepal in the wake of large scale disasters which…
Habitat Victoria has started to build another house at Prospect Rise, Yea using an innovative “core construction method”. In this unique method, the homes wet areas (bathroom, toilet, laundry and kitchen) are built…
In Bitung, Indonesia we are working with Internally Displaced Persons to gain access to safe housing and secure tenure.