by HabitatAdmin | Apr 19, 2022 | International Programme, Ukraine
The loud explosions jolted Marina and her husband from their slumber just before dawn outside Dnipro, a central Ukrainian city that spreads out from the banks of the Dnieper River. Confused, they wandered outside their nine-story apartment building and couldn’t...
by HabitatAdmin | Jan 26, 2022 | Pacific
Habitat for Humanity New Zealand is drawing on its proven track record of disaster response in the Pacific to assist the people of Tonga after the devastation caused by the eruption of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai. Habitat has worked in the Pacific for almost 30 years,...
by HabitatAdmin | Jan 21, 2022 | International Programme, Pacific
Sadly, our Tongan neighbours are having a devastating start to the year. Over the weekend of the 15th January, the violent eruption of the underwater Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano caused a major catastrophe for Tonga. The powerful eruption triggered tsunami...
by HabitatAdmin | Mar 10, 2020 | International Programme
On September 28th 2018, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit near Sulawesi, Indonesia, triggering catastrophic liquefaction, landslides and a tsunami that displaced 270,000 people. Soon after the disaster our team from Habitat Indonesia commenced a 3 year recovery plan to...
by Habitat for Humanity New Zealand | May 22, 2019 | Auckland, International Programme, Pacific, Progressive Home Ownership
More than 100 delegates from New Zealand and Pacific Nations of Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the Cook Islands attended the inaugural Pacific People’s Housing Forum on 17th May 2019. First of its kind, this one-day event brought together representatives from local and...
by Habitat for Humanity New Zealand | May 14, 2019 | Pacific
Auckland, 14th May 2019 ─ The inaugural Pacific People’s Housing Forum, hosted by housing organisation Habitat for Humanity New Zealand and the Office of Hon. Jenny Salesa MP, Minister for Building and Construction will take place in Auckland on 17th May 2019....