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| Las jefas (bosses) in Chile |
This has been a rough week for feeling
good. Bombs at the Boston Marathon, exploding fertilizer plants in Texas and
shoot outs with Chechen bombing suspects. It's enough to make you question your
faith in humanity. But that's what Feel Good Friday is for.
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| Dancing lessons in India |
Enter Habitat for Humanity. Since 1976,
Habitat has been working in communities around the globe to provide people with
simple, decent, affordable housing. Families are required to make a down payment and monthly mortgage payments (homes are sold to the families at no profit) in
addition to putting hundreds of hours of "sweat equity" into the
building of their own home and the homes of other Habitat partner families. The
work Habitat does is billed as a hand up, not a hand out.
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| Joseph in Madagascar |
Having volunteered on six Habitat Global
Village trips around the world (Guatemala, Peru, Romania, India, Chile,
Madagascar) I can say they have been some of the most fabulous experiences I
have had. Being in a team of volunteers who, like you, are using their vacation
time to work with families they never met is inspiring. Add in the fact you get
to interact with people you would never meet as a tourist passing through town
and it becomes a very special experience.
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| Omar in Chile |
By the end of your two weeks, houses will
be built (or at least be further along in the construction process),
friendships will be made and tears will be shed. If you are considering a
volunteer vacation with Habitat, I can't recommend it enough.
You can find more info about Habitat
Global Village trips here and if you've got the time to watch an 7:40 minute video I made about my Habitat trip to Madagascar in 2007, you can find
that here. It really is a fabulous way to spend your vacation.
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| India - why am I so happy to be the only one working? |
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