Housing is so much more than four walls and a roof. It’s the opportunity for families to put down roots for the future and live healthy, safe and happy lives.
A roof that protects our children. Walls that keep us safe. Clean water flowing from a tap when we need it. For so many families around the world, these everyday essentials remain out of reach.
That's where your compassion makes all the difference.
This Christmas, you can give the gift of hope and stability with a safe place to call home.
Like so many of us, Mrs. Wasini wants nothing more than to keep her family safe, healthy and together. But for years, the home she lived in made even the simplest aspects of everyday life difficult.
When Mrs. Wasini was at home, she had no clean, running water, and she would worry about creepy crawlies easily making their way inside through the gaps in the walls and roof.
For families like Mrs. Wasini’s, repairing or rebuilding a home is simply beyond financial reach. When every dollar is needed for safe water, food, medicine and other essentials, there is little left to make a home safe.
Showing your care through a donation today will make sure families like Mrs. Wasini's can finally feel safe, in a new and secure home.
Your kindness can complete a safe home, with access to clean water
Just a short distance from Mrs. Wasini’s home lives Mrs. Suryana. She is a mother, a community leader and the head of her village’s water committee.
Until recently, something as simple as getting water for her family meant a one-hour journey by motorbike with her son, returning with two heavy jerry cans.
Water for drinking. Water for cooking. Water for washing.
Every drop had to be collected, carried and carefully rationed. And in this part of Indonesia, the porous limestone landscape means rainwater drains away rather than collecting in accessible rivers or wells. In this type of topography, water is scarce, even during the wet season.
You can help women like Mrs. Suryana and Mrs. Wasini put down roots for a happier, safer life.
Your kindness with a donation today can build safe homes with strong foundations AND install solar powered water pumps, providing clean, fresh drinking water straight to homes.
You can help families put down roots for their children, and their children’s children.
Together, this is what we make possible. Not just a tap. Not just a home. But the opportunity for an entirely different future.
without a safe home or clean drinking water, families cannot break the cycle of generational marginalisation
without safe homes
Families are working incredibly hard to build better lives. Sadly, unsafe housing, limited incomes and increasing climate pressures continue to hold them back.
- A damaged roof, a failed harvest or a family illness can quickly become a crisis across the whole household
- In Mrs. Wasini and Mrs. Suryana’s village, earthquakes are a constant threat – with the fear of their homes collapsing never far away
- Poor housing conditions contribute to illness, financial hardship and lost work opportunities. Children struggle to learn and thrive. Parents face impossible choices
- Repairing or rebuilding their home is simply beyond their financial reach. When every dollar is needed for safe water, food, medicine and other essentials, there is little left to make a home safe
without safe water
Without decent sanitation, families are exposed to more frequent illness, with less time to work or study – continuing the cycle of inequity.
- families in the community have to travel over an hour to collect water from natural sources
- When drought and the dry season hit, the lack of accessible water kills crops and families must sell their livestock to afford clean water
For households earning an average of just AUD1.60 a day, a 500-litre water delivery represents an enormous financial burden
Scarcity forces families to store water for longer than is safe, or go completely without it
- Women and girls bear the responsibility of collecting water, frequently spending hours carrying heavy loads over long distances