(These pictures are from google)

Please answer the following questions:

1. What does Habitat for Humanity do?

  

----The Habitat for Humanity is a kind of organization which do for nonprofit, they try their best to reduce poor and homeless population in the world.The most important  thing is that they try their best to encourage people to work and pay money for their house. They help poor person through getting donation from government and business projects and then, they will ask volunteers to help to build house for poor person. The procedure as the picture showed)

2. Does the organization help all applicants equally? What are the eligibility criteria?

---They have roles to chose partner families:

1)Need for housing

2)Ability to pay mortgage

3)Willingness to partner with habitat.

3. Read about the activity of Habitat for Humanity in your country and provide some statistics.

---I have known that Habitat for Humanity had done a great job in China after terrible earthquake happened. And there is a nonprofit organization which called One Foundation in China, this organization have worked with Habitat for Humanity for several times, they helped WenChuan and some poor places or destroyed places in China. 

   According to their website's statistics,"December 2011: To date, nearly 1,200 volunteers have worked on Habitat’s stilt house restoration and community development project in fishing village of Tai O, Hong Kong. About 50 houses have been restored."&"Access to Improved Water Sources: 89% (2009)  Access to Improved Sanitation Facilities: 55% (2009)" This statistics are from  http://www.habitat.org/where-we-build/china

4. What are the volunteering options for those who are willing to help?

---They will choose volunteer who has enough passion and be not afraid of tiring and dirty things.And the real heart of wanting to help people is very important.

5. List the benefits of having a healthy housing and explain how this can impact the lives of home residents.

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• A healthy housing can help people live safety, it can provide a basic living need for poor person that poor person can have a stable house which has enough space to active and which is hard that can help against storms.
• A healthy house can help people pay more focus on their work and study, because they can sleep well and live in a safe place. 
• The healthy house can help encouraging people try their best to work and return more values to society. It can help poor people have a grateful heart that they will try to help others and societies.