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About Disaster Response -- Habitat for Humanity Int'l 1
About Disaster Response
Disaster strikes in an instant, but shelter and housing needs remain
Supporting families affected by disasters requires immediate, comprehensive and collaborative actions. Long after humanitarian aid organizations have completed their relief work, the need for quality shelter and housing remains for months and years.
Habitat’s response to disasters
Habitat’s Disaster Response focuses on the housing needs that arise from natural disasters and humanitarian emergency conflicts. We offer expertise in technical information; program design and implementation; and disaster response policies, protocols and procedures. We also provide support and informational resources for disaster mitigation and preparedness―helping communities in disaster-prone areas protect themselves against future threats.
More than 50,000 families worldwide have been served under Habitat’s disaster recovery programs.
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Featured program: Haiti recovery
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, near Port-au-Prince. 3.7 million people were affected. An enormous number of homes were damage or destroyed and more than 1.1 million Haitians were left displaced or homeless.
Habitat’s Disaster Response is expanding efforts to help families through a multi-phase strategy of response. Read about Habitat’s rebuilding efforts in response to the Haiti earthquake and learn how you can help.
Active programs
Disaster Response meets the challenge of disasters and conflicts worldwide using a number of integrated approaches that revolve around our core competencies of sustainable shelter and housing solutions. Examples of these approaches can be found in our active programs.
Completed programs
By giving the communities the means to rebuild, Habitat has been able to support, empower and work with families in building recovery shelter and housing solutions. Read about these long-term and sustainable solutions in our completed programs.
How you can help
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