The 5th June 2023 marks the 50th annual World Environment Day. Since it was established by the United Nations Environment Programme, every year has marked growing awareness of the critical need to take action to protect our environment, along with increasingly complex problems, and most devastatingly, more and more tangible evidence of the impact environmental… Read more »
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Building Solid Ground in Makululu Slum
Solid Ground Project in Zambia approaches the final year of operation. Since 2019, Habitat for Humanity and its partners have been implementing a project in Zambia called Solid Ground. The project (which is funded by Comic Relief) aims to provide those living in the rural slum village of Makululu, Kabwe City, a way to secure… Read more »
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Fighting Evictions in Recife, Brazil: Favelas, Bankruptcy & Luxury
Today when you arrive in Recife, what you can’t always see are the many forgotten communities and thousands of displaced families who have suffered to make those views so ‘spectacular’.
Read moreVolunteers in Brazil Join Efforts to Rebuild Favelas
The hard work begins in Brazil Last October, a group of international volunteers arrived in Recife, the sprawling capital of the North-East Region of Pernambuco, Brazil, to spend the next week renovating homes for 5 families in the Alto Santa Terezinha community. This favela was chosen by Habitat for Humanity because there are many families living… Read more »
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