Touchstone’s Support In Cambodia Thanks to support from Touchstone, Habitat Cambodia recently completed a three-year project called Chapadeum Chivet Thmey (“New Start, New Life”) which built 17 new houses, upgraded 21 houses, built 10 latrines, trained 38 family representatives in financial literacy and livelihood skills, and provided 17 families with micro-finance livelihood start-up support. In… Read more »
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Fuelling Ambitions: Improving Lives with Micro-Credit in Uganda
To Reduce Poverty in Africa, Charities Must Make Tough Choices
They Varying levels of poverty across Africa We take a look at poverty housing in Africa and how we can approach reducing this through microfinance programmes. The following blog post has been compiled from a series of interviews with our programme coordinators in Uganda. We wanted to ask our collegues about the difficult decisions their local branches have… Read more »
Read moreHow We Help Refugees in Lebanon: Housing for the Crisis (Part 2)
We’ve been working in Lebanon since 2001 on a range of shelter issues from helping refugees deal with the housing crisis to providing vulnerable Lebanese families affected by disability or conflict with: Housing repairs Construction and upgrades Housing micro-finance Water and sanitation projects. This is an update on our current project to support the Syrian and… Read more »
Read moreMicrocredit in Uganda: Tackling The Causes of Poverty
Discover our latest documentary on how we use microcredit to tackle some of the root causes of poverty in Uganda – narrated by Ronald, our volunteer coordinator in the country. “Africa has been portrayed as a continent of hopelessness. Everyone with an interest in Africa is looking at the bad side: Looking at a naked child… Read more »
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