In September, a team of 17 employees from Miller Homes will be joining a corporate volunteer trip to Malawi with us for a week – in order to help build homes for orphans and vulnerable children in the district of Salima. During this time, the volunteers will meet the families they are helping and encounter an entirely new… Read more »
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Volunteering in Romania: Lessons From Our Trip Abroad
Interested in volunteering abroad? Here are a few lessons taken from the blog that the Barnsley Builders created for their volunteer trip in Romania (Comanesti). Lesson #1 – Don’t volunteer yourself for digging After a long journey yesterday and a good nights sleep we were all feeling refreshed this morning. We were all down for breakfast at 7:30,… Read more »
Read moreTeam Building: A Corporate Perspective on Volunteering
Corporate partners are superb supporters of Habitat for Humanity. Our biggest Hope Builder, Miller Homes, explain why they got involved… Over 21 million people volunteer in the UK at least once a year and this contributes an estimated £23.9bn to the UK economy. As a company we’ve pledged to raise £100K during 2016 for Habitat for Humanity. The funds raised… Read more »
Read moreSharing the Love: Volunteering with Family & Friends
Paul Williams was so enamoured by his first Habitat for Humanity overseas volunteering experience that he has since encouraged friends and family to get involved too. Here he tells us how and why overseas volunteering has become a family affair… Images of difficult, sometimes dire situations. We see them all the time – sometimes we… Read more »
Read moreWhy & How to Get Started in Volunteering
For National Volunteering Week, we’ve asked our volunteers why they go to far away places to help people they don’t know and what it is that makes them come back for more. These stories may inspire you to get started in volunteering. Here are some of the answers they gave us as to why volunteering benefits their… Read more »
Read moreWhy I lead Global Village Builds
Team Leading with Habitat for Humanity Great Britain Liz Cotton has built homes all over the world with Habitat for Humanity Great Britain. In this inspiring blog, she shares her passion for volunteering abroad and Team Leading and encourages others to join in… “Now we have this house, we have no more challenges.” is the… Read more »
Read moreTeam Leader shares thoughts on the Power of Home
The Team Leader Experience Sandy Muir, a wonderful Global Village Team Leader, shares the rewarding experience of working alongside our HomePartners. Here he tells us why he keeps returning to Global Village Builds each year… Over 9 years ago, while early retirement was beckoning me, I discovered a friend from my church was organising a… Read more »
Read moreReasons for Volunteering: Finding Meaning in Life
Our Head of Volunteering, Manuela Campbell, tells us her Habitat story of finding meaning in life through volunteering. From my first interaction with Habitat for Humanity I have found that it is all about what we can do. As individuals, as team members, as leaders and HomePartners—we can harness the Power of One in order to… Read more »
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