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One Morning at Kpg Senibong

Rose Wong is the latest to blog about her build experience. She joined me and two other friends at a site in Kampung Senibong last Sunday for a half day build. She’s been wanting to come along ever since I blogged about my first trip, so I’m glad she finally made it! Half a day [...]

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Habitat for Humanity begins its 300,001st house

In the midst of a housing crisis in which thousands of families are losing their homes, Habitat for Humanity is determined to continue building hope. After marking milestone growth with house number 300,000, Habitat turns toward the 1.5 billion people worldwide still in need of adequate shelter, and breaks ground on number 300,001.     [...]

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The hope for all our tomorrows

The title of this post echoes the opening line of a schmaltzy ’80s hit but, you know what, if Obama (my hero of the moment) can make a famous Ghandi quotation* his own,** I don’t see why I should be ashamed to say, yes, I have been inspired by Whitney . . . I really do believe the children are [...]

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HfH visits Lodge School

HfH rep visits Lodge School Eastern Times, 22 Oct 2008 (click for larger image) Building social conscience among the youth Borneo Post, 22 Oct 2008   WHEN DO WE START: Habitat for Humanity Kuching’s VP and Public Relations Officer, James Lo, HfH Family Mentor Foo Ai Fung and volunteers from Holland, Joost Craenmehr and Joyce [...]

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He did it… 35 minutes ago.

Barack Obama is President of the United States. Not meaning to show my political bias here — this is not the venue — but Obama is good for Habitat. In case you didn’t know, in Sept, Obama Works Twin Cities did a build with Minneapolis HfH, and back in July 2006: Barack Obama The US Senator for Illinois [...]

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