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Creating a Healing Space: How Habitat for Humanity Australia Volunteers and Habitat Women Built a Sensory Garden for Domestic Violence Refuge
Our Brush with Kindness volunteers and our Habitat Women cohort came together to create a sensory garden at the Aboriginal Women and Children’s Services (AWCCS) refuge. This refuge provides a…
An aboriginal art mural at Rainbow Lodge
Habitat and Rainbow Lodge come together through Brush with Kindness.
Habitat Australia’s Brush with Kindness program supports disadvantaged and vulnerable members of our community through mobilising volunteers to refurbish, repair and refresh crises and transitional accommodation for people facing hardship,…
portrait of Carolina from Habitat Women
Carolina’s Habitat Women Journey: Building Confidence And Realising Her Dreams
Carolina has always had a desire to join the construction industry, but like many women, she found it difficult to break into the field. Thanks to the Habitat Women program,…
Elizabeth learning to cut tiles in the Habitat Women workshop
Meet Elizabeth: Building a future with Habitat Women 
In Australia, the construction industry is traditionally very male dominated, with only 24% of the workforce identifying as female. (WGEA, May 2024) However, initiatives like our Habitat Women program are…
What is Habitat for Humanity Australia doing about Homelessness in Australia?
This week is National Homelessness Week. With more than 1600 people pushed into homelessness each week and more than 640,000 Australian households experiencing housing stress, there is a severe and…
NAIDOC Week 2024 | A lifetime of impact on Indigenous lives, one brush, one team, one smile at a time
This year during NAIDOC week we worked alongside our corporate partners across Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane to provide Indigenous housing with much needed repairs and renovations.  We mobilised 180 corporate volunteers who…

Stories from overseas

Building Resilience and Hope: A story of Success in Beguntila, Dhaka 
In the bustling city of Dhaka, Bangladesh, one community is finding strength, unity, and resilience through a remarkable initiative led by Habitat for Humanity. The construction of a climate-smart, inclusive…
Global Village build in Fiji - volunteers build inside a home
Hayley and Heaths Engagement Story: Celebrating love and life on the Global Village program in Fiji.
Our Global Village program allows volunteers to make a tangible difference by helping communities in need build safe, secure homes. Through this initiative, participants from around the world can join…
Homeowner gardening outside toilet
World Toilet Day: Transforming lives through water, sanitation and hygiene
On World Toilet Day we are reminded of the global urgency to ensure access to safe sanitation for all and the role that Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) plays in…
Australian NGO community celebrates 50th anniversary for one-of-a-kind Government-NGO partnership program
At Habitat for Humanity Australia, we build homes, communities and hope. Through our longstanding partnership with the Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP), we have been able to extend our work…
A resident participates in fire prep training
Fire Preparation with Habitat Bangladesh
In congested informal settlements like Beguntila in Mirpur, Dhaka, fire lurks like an unseen predator, always poised to strike. Houses in the informal settlements are stitched together with whatever materials…
Mrs Tan Ta May stands in front the new toilet built outside her home.
The Tan Ta May Family’s Journey Towards A Safer Home 
High in the mountains of the Lao Cai province, lives the Tan Ta May family. Mrs May, her husband and their two young sons, live in a deteriorating makeshift home,…

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Meet Jan and Greg: Our Volunteers of the Year!

This year, we’re delighted to honour Jan and Greg, our Volunteers of the Year at Habitat for Humanity Australia. Their commitment to our Brush with Kindness (BWK) program in Queensland has been truly…

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Building a Better World | Spring 2024

Australia’s construction and trade industries have been male dominated, with women making up just 24% of the workforce. Your support is transforming that imbalance through our Habitat Women program – empowering women with…

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Building a Better World | Spring 2023

This spring we bring you our latest Build a Better World newsletter featuring Global Village updates, the latest Bushfire Resilience news, a reflection on NAIDOC week and an exclusive Safewill partnership offer. 

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The Housing Crises in Australia

It is 2023 and Australia is still grappling with a complex and pressing issue – homelessness. Every year, thousands of Australians find themselves without a place to call home, facing a daunting and…

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Building a Better World | Autumn 2023

Read our latest Building a Better World newsletter. Read our heartwarming story about our youngest fundraiser Sophia, learn more about housing and climate change, innovations in India and an exciting way to engage…

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Building a Better World | Spring 2022

This spring we bring you our latest Building a Better World Newsletter talking about our Bushfire Resilience Program, Updates from Ukraine and the exciting return of our overseas volunteering program Global Village. …

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