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HABITAT PLANS TO BUILD 18,500 HOMES FOR TSUNAMI VICTIMS

E-News Update from Habitat for Humanity, 7 January 2005
http://www.habitat.org.au/involved/asia_tsunami.htm

Just days after an earthquake and gigantic tsunami killed over 150,000 people and displaced millions in Asia; it is now clear that the recovery efforts will be among the largest the world has ever seen.

Your help is desperately needed today. By donating now, your gift will be used to provide urgently needed housing for 18,500 families in the four worst hit countries - Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Indonesia and ten of thousands more at a later date.

Habitat for Humanity is helping families move out of refugee camps and other temporary shelter and into transitional accommodation as a first step to permanent housing. Overcrowding, hunger, disease and crime in many camps is encouraging local authorities to persuade families to return to their communities, where possible, in order to start rebuilding their shattered lives.

Habitat’s two-part response involves working in partnership with local officials, relief agencies and other non-governmental organizations to quickly provide transitional housing. The preference is build simple “core” house, preferably on land sites already owned by families. At a later stage these, “core” homes can be improved and extended.

That’s why we ask that you help Habitat meet the extraordinary need right now by making a gift of $50, $250, or even $750 today to help us rehouse displaced families.

To construct a basic core house in Sri Lanka and India is expected to cost just $750.Some destroyed homes have their foundations still intact and as little as $250 will be enough to build a single room home by reusing materials from damaged homes. This temporary shelter can be made more permanent and more rooms added later.

In Indonesia, the worst hit country, Habitat is examining a plan to work in Aceh and Nias using donated or discounted materials to erect transitional steel housing in refugee centres. The homes would be dismantled for re-use once the families return to their own land. Units are expected to cost just $300 each.

Habitat is joining the national reconstruction effort in Thailand. Options being considered include disaster response technical/business and training centres and core house construction.

Habitat for Humanity has built 175,000 homes in 100 countries worldwide and has the staff and expertise to be a lead player in the rehousing of ten of thousands of displaced families.

Please help Habitat respond to this overwhelming humanitarian tragedy by making an emergency gift today. We can’t do it without you.
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