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Boletín T1-2019

Construction Technical Assistance for Families

Technical Assistance in Construction is to accompany families with a qualified technician in the construction area, who guides them in safe procedures or self-construction building, according to the regulations in the Dominican Republic. Engineers ensure that the investment is safe, cost-minimizing risks, construction and use of materials. For the project “Building Hope Footsteps in Haina
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Boletín T1-2019

International volunteers

You can become a volunteer through our program! And it can help a family build a home and community building. It’s a great opportunity to serve the community. Work hand in hand with the family. Learn construction skills under the supervision of a professional engineer construction. Expand your prospects while helping others to build a secure future
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Boletín T1-2019

Our financial services give families access to housing

Access to financial services is very limited in emerging economies like the Dominican Republic. Most problematic is the ability to purchase, as housing is very expensive and incomes are very low. Many families living in urban areas are forced to live in conditions that are not necessarily ideal with limited services. Others move from rural areas
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Boletín T1-2019

Much more than houses

Habitat Dominican educates homeowners through financial education to ensure greater robustness in families. During this quarter, they were carried out two activities to educate 17 families on how to manage their finances. The module included lectures on family income, different types of expenses, household budget and how to define a savings plan. Most participants had not
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VPL study for disaster reduction

Visión de Primera Línea (VPL) remains as the largest independent global study on disaster risk reduction at the local level.   It is a forward-looking monitoring process that supports the approaches of the Reducción del Riesgo de Desastre (RRD) focused on people. It is intended to support the local implementation of Marco de Sendai para
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Cada familia necesita ayuda para reconstruir tras un desastre.

Habitat teaches resistant construction in the Caribbean

Spanish only Los tres grandes huracanes de 2017, Harvey, Irma y María, causaron devastación y pérdidas económicas muy superiores a temporadas ciclónicas anteriores, que el Banco Mundial ha estimado entre los USD$500 y 1000 millones al año, impactando negativamente a los habitantes de varias islas del Caribe.   La vivienda es un recurso muy vulnerable
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¡Disasters are not natural!

We often hear the expression “natural disasters” said when it refers to the general affectation caused by hurricanes, storms, floods, droughts or other phenomena. This expression implies that nature is to blame for the damages, losses and deaths caused; However, the consequences of the phenomena are not the same for the people and territories impacted:
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Support for low-income Dominican families

Source Distribuidora Corripio executives (DC), in behalf of Procter & Gamble trademarks that they commercialize in the country, delivered the donation corresponding to five percent of the sales generated during their activity “Black Week” in November 2017 to the non-profit entity Habitat for Humanity. The delivery of this donation was made during a press conference
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Improvement with insurance basics

Yaquelin works as a cleaning supervisor and her husband is a mechanic. His mother gave him a house and was living there with his family. When he heard about a project of Habitat for Humanity Dominican Republic, through through microfinance institution Banco ADEMI ally, he decided to ally themselves with both organizations to build a house. Yaquelin
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Luz and her family improve their living conditions

Mom Luz and her husband have 50 years of living in the community of Playa Oeste. Mom light is dedicated to clean sidewalks and streets. They have a son who died. In 2017, Irma and Maria hurricanes affected the Dominican Republic. Light for Mom, this meant damage to the roof of his house. With debris from the street, she
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