The Global Village program: Volunteering on a Global Village trip (GV program)
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
Spread Strategies: Moving forward, what are the main strategies for scaling impact?
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
Team
Habitat for Humanity Deutschland
7
Marco
Witze
Chairman
Germany
2005
, PH, Ploiesti
Armenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal and Tajikistan
Last mile distribution: Entries in this category focus on solutions that enable the physical delivery of life-changing services to people with restricted mobility or restricted access (senior people, people with disability, remote or difficult areas, etc.).
Partner 1
American International School Salzburg
-Social/public
-IS-Salzburg provides a wide variety of excursions, and countless opportunities for social engagement and involvement.
Key motivation
• Promote the personal development of students
• Get to know the socio-economic differences
• Being a part of the reintegration process of the partner family back to the community
Key contributions
The students are the key resource financially, since each GV team has to raise an adjusted amount of donation and secondly, the know-how from previous volunteering cooperation’s with Habitat for Humanity
Partner 2
Henkel
Business/social
In over 2,400 projects Henkel supported more than 1,000,000 people in the areas of social needs, education, health and environment by donating 7.9 million € in 2013.
Key motivation
• Innovative way to make emotional and lasting connections among the team members of different departments
• Positive contribution to the community through increased attractiveness of the village (economy)
• Promote cultural diversity and tolerance amongst the employees
Key contributions
The key contribution of the people involved is the variety of expertise (facility manager up to personal assistant are present). Understanding of work Habitat is committed to by actively cooperating with the business and organization.
-Key contributions in the co-creation project [Max 35 words/partner]
-Partner 2
-Type of partners [business/social/public]
-Short description sentence [Max 25 words/partner]
-Key motivation to participate in the co-creation project [Max 35 words/partner]
-Key contributions in the co-creation project [Max 35 words/partner]
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In 2013, the GV program organized 20 trips and engaged more than 407 volunteers to support Habitat for Humanity's global building programs. So far, Habitat for Humanity has helped to build or repair more than 800,000 houses and serve more than 4 million people worldwide.
The GV program is great for team bonding by actively participating in a corporate team building experience namely creating a home. It also show that the company or community involved cares about the community and helping low-income families that could benefit from the hand up of homeownership. Moreover, the volunteer experiences the community’s culture, language and social practices while working alongside the homeowners and volunteers of all backgrounds, races and religions. Volunteers taking an important part in a transformative, lifelong journey and have the opportunity to make a tangible difference for families
Individuals, Foundations, NGOs, Businesses, Regional government.
Habitat for Humanity houses are sold to partner families at no profit and financed with affordable loans. The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments are used to build more houses. Housing microfinance is a promising tool for families to gradually improve their living conditions. Housing microfinance have relatively short repayment periods, small loan amounts and little or no collateral required. Habitat for Humanity does not issue microfinance loans, but collaborates with partner microfinance institutions. Partners provide loans; Habitat for Humanity provides trainings to homeowners on financial responsibility and managing their loans.
Habitat for Humanity was founded in 1976 in Americus, Georgia, USA. The idea for Habitat for Humanity was born at Koinonia Farm in 1965. Millard and Linda Fuller developed the concept of "partnership housing”. In 1973, the Fullers decided to apply the concept in developing countries and moved to Mbandaka, Zaire with the goal to offer affordable yet adequate shelter to 2,000 people. After three years of hard work to launch a successful house building program, they returned to the United States.
Through this program, simple, decent houses became affordable to those who were too poor to qualify for conventional financing. Their house payments were placed into a revolving Fund for Humanity, which was used to build more houses.
It is a joint project. On the one side the partner family on site cooperates with Habitat for Humanity and on the other side the community or company.
Habitat for Humanity arrange the gathering of both parties and furthermore the host Habiat for Humanity office overlook the building project from the start until the end as construction manager. Habitat for Humanity takes responsibilty for the complete trip organisation to ensure everything runs smoothly and the help is as efficient as possible.
Many volunteers have described their Global Village trip as a life-changing, transformative experience through which they gained a deeper understanding about poverty housing, development challenges and the importance of being a global citizen.
Affordable Habitat homeownership has a transformative effect on the lives of low-income families. Individuals and company support helps low-income families across the country experience just these transformative outcomes, which will have an impact on their health and wellbeing for years to come.
The donation and thousand of hours of volunteer support, truly illustrating the organization’s commitment to helping families get the initial footing they need to improve their lives.
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