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Our Mission
Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with God and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses, so that there are decent houses in decent communities in which every person can experience God's love and can live and grow into all that God intends.
Our Vision
The ultimate goal of Habitat for Humanity is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the face of the earth by constructing and building adequate and basic housing. Furthermore, all our words and actions are for the ultimate purpose of putting shelter on the hearts and minds of people in such a way that poverty housing and homelessness become socially, politically and religiously unacceptable in our nations and world.
Our Purposes
The official purposes of Habitat for Humanity are to partner with specific programmes in habitat development globally, by constructing modest but adequate housing, and to associate with other organizations functioning with purposes consistent with those of Habitat, as stated in the Articles of Incorporation, to witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world.
- By working in cooperation with God's people in need to create a better habitat in which to live and work.
- By working in cooperation with other agencies and groups which have a kindred purpose.
- By exemplifying the Gospel of Jesus Christ through loving acts and the spoken and written word.
- By enabling an expanding number of persons from all walks of life to participate in this ministry
Mission Focus
- Demonstrate the love and teachings of Jesus Christ.
- Provide a way for sharing between the affluent and those in need.
- Work in partnership with representative local leadership.
- Select families in greatest need first, without favoritism or discrimination.
- Construct simple, decent and affordable houses together.
- Sell houses at no profit, no interest and use payments to build more houses.
Foundational Principles
- Habitat for Humanity seeks to demonstrate the love and teachings of Jesus Christ to all people. While Habitat is a Christian organization, it invites and welcomes volunteers from other faiths - and no faith - actively committed to Habitat's mission, method of operation and principles.
- Habitat for Humanity is a people to people partnership drawing families and communities in need together with volunteers and resources to build decent, affordable housing. Habitat is committed to the development and uplifting of families and communities, not only to the construction of houses.
- Habitat for Humanity builds, renovates and repairs simple, decent and affordable housing with people who are living in inadequate housing and who are unable to secure adequate housing by conventional means.
- Habitat for Humanity selects homeowner families according to the criteria that do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, or ethnic background. All homeowners contribute “sweat equity," they work as partners with the affiliate and other volunteers to accomplish Habitat's mission, both locally and worldwide.
- Habitat for Humanity sells houses to selected families with no profit or interest added. House payments are used for the construction or renovation of additional affordable housing.
- Habitat for Humanity is a global partnership. In recognition of and commitment to that global partnership, each affiliate is expected to contribute at least 10 percent of its cash contributions to habitat's international work. Funds specially designated by a donor for local work may be excluded from the tithe.
- Habitat for Humanity welcomes partnership with the governments that includes accepting funds to help set the stage for the construction of houses, provided it does not limit our ability to proclaim our Christian witness, and further provided that affiliates do not become dependent on or controlled by government funds thus obtained. Setting the stage is interpreted to include land, houses for rehabilitation, infrastructure for streets, utilities, and administrative expenses.
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