Habitat for Humanity Zambia (HFHZ) today handed over a three bed roomed house to an orphaned and vulnerable family of Chazanga compound in Lusaka.
The family comprising three girls aged 19, 17, and 11 and a boy aged 9 years old have been living in a makeshift shelter since 2003 after their house in Ngombe compound was demolished in the same year due to a land dispute.
Speaking at the function First Republican president, Kenneth Kaunda said, it is the principle of loving ones neighbor that drives HFHZ to care for orphans and vulnerable children.
Dr. Kaunda urged Zambians to embrace the principle of loving each other in order to help each other.
He thanked the Irish Aid and the other cooperating partners for coming to the aid of the orphans and vulnerable people in society.
A representative of Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), Desiree Adaway, revealed that HFHI has built 3000 houses and has put 1.5 million people into decent housing.
Handing over the House, Habitat for Humanity Zambia Board Chairperson, Mary Kazunga said HFHZ renovates and builds houses for orphans and vulnerable children using money from donors like USAID, Irish Aid, Churches, and individuals among others.
Mrs. Kazunga disclosed that HFHZ has built and renovated over 2,000 houses in six provinces in Zambia under two housing schemes.
She also revealed that Habitat for Humanity was in 2008 awarded grant funding under the Civil Society Fund to improve the lives of orphans and vulnerable children and their caregivers in Lusaka and Ndola.
Mrs. Kazunga said HFH’s work aligns closely with Irish Aid’s policy goals of reducing poverty and promoting sustainable, equitable development by focusing on a root cause of community disenfranchisement and impoverishment.
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
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My lord…Why oh why. I touches my soul when i turn my eyes and see the wickedness that babylon can carry on. How can KK and his cohorts boast to be assisting the poor and vulnerable. They havent mentioned that those houses have to be paid for in full. And that the accrue interest each year. Find out from the orphans how much the will pay for that act of kindness. If those houses are built from donor funds while not subsidise them.
Shame on you habitat, shame on you kk for not telling the truth. LT get the truth on the conditions and terms for those houses. People should learn to say the truth.
Konsinjo, you are a true patriot of our mother Zambia, the poor are been used by the rich….the houses are built on the principle which exist here in the State, where people are used by the mortgage companies…the poor are sucked off their hope…so that they as donor will look like saviors when they are actually not. SHAME!!!!!