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An Evening With Habitat Kuching

Posted on January 23, 2009 in Events

Habitat for Humanity (HfH) Kuching is greeting 2009 with a Concert Dinner to be held on 7 March 2009 at 7 p.m. at Terrace Jade banquet hall, Sarawak Club Golf Resort. The dinner will be generously hosted by Global Upline Sdn Bhd. Entertainment for the evening will be provided by SingleTrackMind and LayNa Ballet Academy. [...]

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Habitat for Humanity begins its 300,001st house

Posted on November 25, 2008 in Media Coverage

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

Posted on November 11, 2008 in People

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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He did it… 35 minutes ago.

Posted on November 5, 2008 in People

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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Happy Birthday, and Thank You

Posted on November 3, 2008 in People

This is a special shout out to Georgette Tan. Apart from helping revamp this site, Georgette came up with an amazing idea on her own initiative — for her birthday, she asked her friends, instead of giving her presents, to volunteer to build with Habitat or give a donation.  The successful birthday build is written [...]

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