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Habitat for Humanity International's Disaster Response
initiative helps homeowners and communities mitigate,
prepare for and recover from natural and man-made disasters.
Habitat moves in quickly to:
rehabilitate damaged homes or building permanent housing
after a disaster;
offer technical and organizational expertise in shelter
construction; and to
reduce the risk of further destruction through preparedness
and mitigation programs.
Habitat provided tools and materials to Afghan families
in need to rebuild or repair houses damaged by years
of conflict and the March
2002 earthquake.
Fifty flood-ravaged homes in Sukakarya, a village in
northern Bekasi, near the Indonesian
capital of Jakarta, were renovated over the summer of
2002 as part of a three-month disaster response program
supported by the authorities, local foundations and
corporations, and HFH New Zealand. More than 200 volunteers,
including employees of General Motors Indonesia helped
homeowners with the renovations.
In Gujarat, India, Habitat is reconstructing homes
damaged or destroyed when an earthquake shook the region
in January 2001. Some 664 houses were reconstructed
in the villages of Sikhra and Khumbariya.
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