Sendai Habitat

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Sendai Habitat refers to the annual charity projects undertaken by JETs in Sendai for Habitat for Humanity International.

Habitat for Humanity (HFH) is a non-profit organization that has helped build over 100,000 houses around the world. Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and renovates simple, decent houses with the help of the home-owner’s family. This year a group of ALT’s from Miyagi are going to the Philippines.

1 Philippines - 2007
2 Hosting history
3 Sri Lanka - 2006
- 3.1 Photo gallery
4 Fiji - 2005
- 4.1 Photo gallery
5 Bangladesh 2004
- 5.1 Photo album
6 Borneo - 2003
- 6.1 Photo gallery
7 India - 2002
8 Papua New Guinea - 2001
9 Nepal - 2000
10 Sponsors

[edit] Philippines - 2007

This year sees teams assist local volunteers and home partners with a variety of unskilled tasks such as mixing and passing cement, carrying and laying blocks, digging and landscaping. No prior construction experience is necessary.

[edit] Hosting history

Since 1996 HFH Philippines has hosted about 200 Global Village teams, including youth teams from Japan, Korea and New Zealand; JET (Japan Exchange Teaching) teams from Japan; corporate teams from the Netherlands and adult teams from Northern Ireland and the USA

[edit] Sri Lanka - 2006

Sri Lanka

Volunteers living in Sendai and Miyagi (Japan) donated their time and money and traveled to Anuradhapura (JPN) to build a house for an under-privileged family.

[edit] Photo gallery

[edit] Fiji - 2005

In 2005, 13 JETs traveled to Vunidawa in Fiji to complete a building project.

[edit] Photo gallery

When we arrived, this is what greeted us.	This is the plan we needed to complete.	First, we dug post holes and sunk the foundations.	Next, we finished the flooring and the frame for one wall.
In the morning we raised our first wall.	And then we finished the frame for the second wall.	Next we finished the third and fourth wall frame.	And raised all four walls.
We built the frame for the roof.	And put the roof on the walls.	Here we made some doors and some steps.	And we finished the roof and put in the windows.
Here we are inside the finished house!	And here we are outside!

[edit] Bangladesh 2004

A group of 6 English teachers ALTs living in Sendai, Japan traveled to Jessore in Bangladesh to assist with a Habitat for Humanity 'Global Village' building project. Each volunteer donated their time and money so that families in Bangladesh may have safe and decent housing. The group traveled to Bangladesh in late April 2004, and spent one week laboring and another week visiting local communities and schools while traveling around Bangladesh. This volunteer project was only made possible through the many personal donations and group fund raising events.

[edit] Photo album

[edit] Borneo - 2003

This year, 8 ALTs spent two weeks in Borneo, the first week as a volunteer on a building project for a Muslim family in need of better housing.

With a family of about 20, Jaya (below right) was living in a house with only a kitchen, a living area and one small bedroom. The plans (Below left) show the new house which we helped construct. We arrived to only 9 concrete foundations set into tidal mudflats. Although we didn't finish the house we were able to see it take shape into a house that more than doubles his family's living space.