The first workshop on Financial Education will be carried out from May 12 to 17. This workshop is intended to provide useful tools for families to learn to manage properly their income and expenses.
Habitat for Humanity Mexico is an internationally-based, nonprofit, civil society organization, authorized to issue tax deductible receipts, ecumenical, based on Christian principles that works to develop communities and mobilize resources to make decent housing accessible to low-income families, in addition to advocate for the fundamental right of shelter so that the individuals may achieve an integral and sustainable development and become agents of their own change and that of their communities.
Women Moving the World
The Women Moving the World project is focused on women who are heads of family or single mothers who need a decent home. These women are almost always single mothers without a couple.This project will take place from July 207 to July 2008 to support 100 women heads of family in ten states of the Mexican Republic. (more information)
2004 Jimmy Carter Work Project, Mexico150 houses in 5 daysHabitat for Humanity Mexico makes it possible
Mexico was host of one of the events with greater volunteer participation in the country: the 2004 Jimmy Carter Work Project. 4,100 volunteers from 37 countries and 10 states throughout the country, joined to build 150 houses in 5 days with Habitat for Humanity Mexico in communities of Puebla and Veracruz from October 24 to 29 in 2004. (more information)
Bring your work and enthusiasm to help families in need get a decent home to better live and grow. Join this mission and help change the reality of many people who are waiting for a chance to achieve a better life.
You can participate through:
- Volunteer Program: Volunteers are key for Habitat for Humanity Mexico in the fulfillment of its mission and vision to build houses through the mutual help approach. We want to create opportunities, throw down barriers and put love in action.
- Donations: Habitat for Humanity Mexico receives donations in order to work to achieve its mission of impacting the life of people that are in need of a decent place to live.
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“The personal impact of giving something of ourselves, of sharing in communion, in a team environment where we are “all equal”, strengthens such values as humbleness, commitment, responsibility and above all a humanitarian sense towards the others. ”
Leon Lugo
Administrative Manager
Interceramic
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In Mexico, it was not until 1983 that the right to housing became a constitutional right and was considered a human right.
To close this gap, there is a requirement to build 750,000 houses per year in this decade, of which 307,000 would be for individuals that earn less than three Mexican minimum wages and are part of the population living in extreme poverty.
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