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‘Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.’
Mikel Flamm
— I Corinthians 13:7
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Introduction:
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In May 2009, the first Habitat Resource
Center in Central Asia opened in Asht,
Tajikistan. It offers vocational education on
construction skills and housing services for
Highlights to celebrate from FY2009 low-income Tajik families. The center idea
spread from Habitat’s success using it after
July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009
the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
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Habitat for Humanity International earned a Habitat for Humanity was ranked as the
four-star rating for sound fiscal management 11th largest homebuilder in the United
from Charity Navigator, an independent States by Builder Magazine in
charity evaluator, indicating that Habitat its 2008 “Builder 100” list.
consistently executes its mission in a
fiscally responsible way.
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The 20th anniversary of Collegiate Challenge
was celebrated in March 2009. Students
In 2009, Habitat celebrated the 10th ages 16 to 25 volunteer during breaks with
anniversary of its work in Kyrgyzstan. A year more than 200 U.S. affiliates to work with
after Habitat started work, it broke ground homeowners like Enjonie Ingram, right, in
for the first 10 houses on the outskirts of Homestead, Florida. Since 1989, more than
Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital. Ten years later, 168,700 young people have participated.
Habitat has served 1,735 families and
works in three regions of the country.
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25 100
In 2008, Habitat for Humanity Asia/ $100 million is the remarkable legacy gift
Pacific marked 25 years of building with pledged by Ron Terwilliger to further the
celebrations in Khammam and Chenai, work of Habitat for Humanity worldwide.
India. An estimated 360,000 people have The chair of the Habitat for Humanity
been served in the region since 1983. International board of directors explains his
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life-changing commitment to families and
housing in a letter on page 26.
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la Obra!” (“House 1,000… Let’s get to work!”). now completed annually, with builds taking
place in the United States and internationally.
2,835
Each house built for the 26th Jimmy &
Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Chiang Mai,
Thailand, requires 2,835 blocks. Test builds
for the November 2009 project were under
way during FY2009. Also included in the
project are sites in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam,
and Sichuan province, China.
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25,000 50,000
More than 25,000 Habitat advocates
contacted their U.S. congressional
representatives to support the Serve America
Habitat for Humanity Lesotho reached an
estimated 50,000 people through an advoca-
cy campaign highlighting secure tenure and
61,000
More than 61,000 families were served by
Act, which added to the AmeriCorps inheritance rights. The campaign trained 40
members serving communities through paralegals in Maseru and Quthing districts, Habitat worldwide in FY2009, a record
Habitat affiliates. Advocates were reached held 691 public meetings, and conducted 287 number served in a single year.
and organized through a multiyear advocacy school visits and 1,531 family or individual
campaign called “Build Louder.” visits through the network of paralegals.
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300,000
On Nov. 13 and 14, 2008, volunteers raised
the walls on Habitat for Humanity’s 300,000th
house, in Naples, Florida, and the 300,001st
house, in Zacapa, Guatemala. The 200,000th
house was dedicated only three years earlier;
the 100,000th house in 2000.
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350,000
More than 350,000 families and 1.75 million
people have been served by Habitat for Humanity
worldwide, from Habitat’s founding in 1976
though the end of FY2009.
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Phillip Jordan
that is on full display when she looks after Children Home”), provides of five to nine days to complete. Partner
her precocious 5-year-old neighbor, Alison. basic, immediate home families provide sweat-equity hours working
The teenager, who is HIV-positive, lives improvements. Through on their own homes, and also contribute
with her mother, Isabel, 49, and her brother, simple home additions a one-time payment toward the home
Jonathan, 19, in San Bernardo, Chile, a or renovations to existing improvement. Local volunteers, Global Vil-
community just south of Santiago. Gladys’ rooms, Habitat Chile creates lage teams (volunteers on short-term build
father and a sister died of AIDS, and her a healthier, more comfortable trips from other countries) and qualified
mother also has HIV. The remaining family home environment. In many construction workers share the work.
members share one bedroom in their narrow cases, this basic change to their Construction depends on the
two-story house. Gladys’ weakened immune housing situation can make the conditions of the existing house and the
system requires that she have separate, more difference between whether a medical needs of the child: handicapped-
hygienic living quarters. child lives in the hospital or at accessible modifications for a child with
In Chile, many low-income families home with loved ones. cerebral paralysis; home weatherization
Fourteen-year-old Gladys Robledo, left, often looks after her neighbor,
receive medical aid from the government, Alison, 5. Gladys, who is HIV-positive, watched as Habitat added a
“We have to shift our focus improvements for a child living with severe
which helps provide vital treatment for new room to her family’s house so that Gladys can live at home, to more than just medicine,” asthma; the addition of a new bedroom
rather than in a hospital.
children with critical and chronic illnesses. says Ana Chavez, director of for an HIV-positive child living with a
Those same families, however, frequently or badly constructed homes. pediatrics. “[A sick child] has a lot of needs. But weakened immune system, such as Gladys.
lack the resources to improve their living Enter Habitat for Humanity Chile. In if they don’t have a safe and adequate environ-
situation. This leads doctors to recommend partnership with Dr. Exequiel Gonzáles Cortez ment to go home to, then what we are doing Page 13: Flowers grow in front of Loraen and Loli
that some terminally ill children remain in Pediatric Hospital in Santiago, Habitat Chile is here at the hospital doesn’t make any sense.” Vilches’ Habitat house in Porongo, Bolivia. The
couple had been raising their three sons there since
hospitals or other medical facilities—rather creating a way to safely reunite children with Habitat Chile hopes to serve at least 200 2005. Before the house, the family lived in one room
than return to overcrowded, poorly insulated their families. The project, “Nuestros Hijos families through this project by May 2011. of a family member’s house.
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Neighborhood Revitalization
The work of Habitat for Humanity is This sobering reality in housing—and
always about community—from building the equally challenging fundraising cli-
a new village with 30 homeless families mate—have spurred Habitat to put a new
in Cambodia to a decade-long project to emphasis on strengthening communities
bring back a working-class neighborhood through programs under the umbrella of
in Macon, Georgia. Habitat’s Neighborhood Revitalization
Once Habitat homeowners are settled Initiative. The refocus on making Habitat
into their houses, they tend to spread good affiliates the catalyst for holistic, sustainable
will throughout the community. A recent community development began this year
study by the University of Southern Indiana and will continue into FY2010 and beyond.
found that people who live next door to The initiative grew in response not
Habitat homeowners say they are good only to the volume of hurting communi-
neighbors—often the best in the neighbor- ties who asked their local Habitat affiliate to
hood. Good neighbors build community. step up to the increasing need, but also to
The disastrous wave of unemployment and Habitat’s interest in innovating and seek-
housing foreclosures from the economic crisis ing new resources to serve more families in
have devastated once-stable neighborhoods need of housing. In 2008, house repairs and
of all income levels throughout the United rehabilitations made up only 10 percent of
States, leaving even more communities at risk. the work being done by most U.S. affili-
The shockwaves around the world have only ates. But the Neighborhood Stabilization
exacerbated an already epidemic need for Program (NSP1/NSP2), created by the
decent, affordable housing. U.S. government to stabilize communities
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People of Qatar
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Consolidated Statements of Financial Position Consolidated Statements of Activities and Changes in Net Assets
Habitat for Humanity International’s auditors, Ernst & Young, have expressed an unqualified
opinion on our June 30, 2009 consolidated financial statements. Those financial statements Change in net assets (23,206,321) (56,419,268)
include associated notes that are essential to understanding the information presented here- Net assets at beginning of year 226,223,661 282,642,929
in. The full set of statements and notes is available at Habitat’s Web site, www.habitat.org.
Net assets at end of year $203,017,340 $226,223,661
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70%
Gifts-in-kind – $46 million
19%
25%
Program - International affiliates – $66 million
50%
6%
Program - Public awareness and advocacy – $16 million
14%
5% Fundraising – $38 million
Total Revenue*
Program – $1 billion
2.1 billion
84%
8%
*The total impact of the entire Habitat 8%
for Humanity mission for the fiscal Fundraising – $101 million
year that ended June 30, 2008.
Andy Shivers
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Board members
Nabil Abadir General director, CEOSS (Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services) Cairo, Egypt
Archbishop Vicken Aykazian Archbishop, Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern); president, National Council of Churches Washington, D.C., United States
Kathleen Bader (Ret.) Chairman, president and chief executive officer of NatureWorks LLC Midland, Michigan, United States
Edward Bastian President and chief financial officer, Delta Airlines Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Henry Cisneros Chair, City View San Antonio, Texas, United States
John Gilbert (Ret.) Chair, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Renee Glover President and chief executive officer, Atlanta Housing Authority Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Mary Kazunga Canada Fund coordinator, Canadian High Commission Lusaka, Zambia
Kevin Kessinger Executive vice president and chief information officer, TD Bank Financial Group Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chainarong Monthienvichienchai Vice chancellor, Saint John’s University Bangkok, Thailand
Anugerah Pekerti Adviser, World Vision International, Indonesia Jakarta, Indonesia
Jonathan Reckford Chief executive officer, Habitat for Humanity International Atlanta, Georgia, United States (ex-officio)
Ed Schreyer Former governor general of Canada Manitoba, Canada
Alex Silva President and founder, Omtrix, Inc. San Jose, Costa Rica
Juel Shannon Smith Educational consultant and founding director, Institute on Black Life and the Center for Africa and the Diaspora Tampa, Florida, United States
John Stack Senior minister, Alberton Methodist Church Alberton, South Africa
Eduardo Tabush President and chief executive officer, La Uva S.A.; Delimport Internacional S.A., Divinos S.A. de C.V Guatemala City, Guatemala
Gladys Gary Vaughn Director of the Office of Outreach, U.S. Department of Agriculture Cabin John, Maryland, U.S.A.
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Jonathan T.M. Reckford Mike Carscaddon Elizabeth Blake Chris Clarke Mark Crozet Ed Quibell Audley Bell Larry Gluth
Chief executive officer Executive vice president Senior vice president Senior vice president Senior vice president Senior vice president Vice president Vice president
International field operations Government Relations and Marketing and Resource Development Administration Internal Audit U.S. field operations;
Advocacy; general counsel Communications Chief financial officer Canada, Guam, Bermuda
Connie Steward Steve Weir Richard Hathaway Gregory Foster Don Haszczyn Torre Nelson Tom Jones
Vice president Vice president Vice president Vice president Vice president Vice president Ambassador of Habitat
Human Resources, Learning and Global Program Asia and Pacific area Africa and Middle East area Europe and Central Asia area Latin America and
Organizational Development Development and Support Caribbean area
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Africa and the Middle East area office Latin America and the Caribbean area office
Celtis Plaza, North Block, 1085 Schoeman St. Del Hotel Irazu 300 Noreste y 100 Este, La Uruca
Hatfield, Pretoria 0083, South Africa San José, Costa Rica
Mailing address: Mailing address:
Box 11179 SJO-2268
Pretoria 0028, South Africa P.O. Box 025331
Phone: +27-12-430-9200 Miami, FL 33102-5331
Email: ame@habitat.org Phone: +506-2296-8120
Email: lac@habitat.org
The children of today
“Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now
is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed.
To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.”
—Gabriela Mistral, Nobel Prize-winning poet from Chile.
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International Headquarters: 121 Habitat St. Americus, GA 31709-3498 USA
(229) 924-6935 (800) HABITAT fax (229) 928-8811 publicinfo@habitat.org www.habitat.org
Cover: Nevine Sayyed, wife of Zakariya Sayyed, holds their 11-month-old son, Mustafa, and chats with neighbors through a hole used as a window in
their home in Tripoli, Lebanon. The family will make repairs through a housing microfinance partnership with Habitat Lebanon. STEFFAN HACKER