Photo and story gallery

The ethos of Habitat for Humanity is not just about bricks and mortar and building houses. It is about empowering people, whom we refer to as homepartners or homeowners, to take control of their own lives and build a better future for themselves and their family. Behind each home that is built is a unique story of positive transformation, whether in Argentina or Armenia, Myanmar or Madagascar, Northern Ireland or Nepal. The following stories and images servce to illustrate this point.

For press use, here are a number of high resolution images and their related stories featuring Habitat for Humanity's work around the world.

Armenia

Story: download Armenia homeowner (466KB WORD)

Photos
Armenia 1 (1.04MB JPEG) – Homeowner family
Armenia 2 (1.29MB JPEG) – House-building in action
Armenia 3 (1.26MB JPEG) – House under construction
Armenia 4 (1.09MB JPEG) – Typical Armenian house

Brazil
Story: download Brazil homeowner (556KB WORD)

Photos
Brazil 1 (1.25MB JPEG) – Homeowner family
Brazil 2 (1.28MB JPEG) – Man working on site
Brazil 3 (1.27MB JPEG) – Family in their original home
Brazil 4 (1.07MB JPEG) – Habitat houses
Brazil 5 (1.10MB JPEG)
Brazil 6 (1.53MB JPEG) – Family outide original home
Brazil 7 (1.08MB JPEG) – House-building in action
Ecuador
Story: download Ecuador homeowner (469KB WORD)

Photos
Ecuador 1 (2.58MB JPEG) – Volunteers at work
Ecuador 2 (2.61MB JPEG) – Volunteers at work
Ecuador 3 (2.67MB JPEG) – Volunteers at work
Ecuador 4 (2.02MB JPEG) – Homeowner in old home
Ecuador 5 (2.69MB JPEG) – Homeowner family
Ecuador 6 (2.39MB JPEG) – Family in original home
Ecuador 7 (2.92MB JPEG) – The build team
Egypt
Story: download Egypt homeowner (1.19MB WORD)

Photos
Egypt 1 (393KB JPEG) – homeowner's previous home
Egypt 2 (123KB JPEG) – homeowner family
Egypt 3 (67KB JPEG) – substandard roof
Northern Ireland
Story: download Northern Ireland homeowner (358KB WORD)

Photos
N Ireland 1 (1.71MB JPEG) – substandard housing
N Ireland 2 (1.52MB JPEG) – Habitat house
N Ireland 3 (1.50MB JPEG) – substandard housing
N Ireland 4 (1.31MB JPEG)
N Ireland 5 (1.67MB JPEG) – homeowner family
Philippines
Story: download Philippines homeowner (501KB WORD)

Photos
Philippines 1 (58KB JPEG) – shack housing
Philippines 2 (67KB JPEG) – devastated community
Philippines 3 (56KB JPEG) – homeowner family
Philippines 4 (184KB JPEG) – substandard housing
Philippines 5 (151KB JPEG) – homeowner family
Romania
Story: download Romania homeowner (1.17MB WORD)

Photos
Romania 1 (1.12MB JPEG) – Geta, an active volunteer for Habitat
South Africa
Story: download South Africa homeowner (301KB WORD)

Photos
South Africa 1 (3.17MB JPEG) – Jiko and her family outside of their new home
South Africa 2 (3.52MB JPEG) – building communities
South Africa 3 (196KB JPEG) – volunteers on build site
South Africa 4 (64KB JPEG) – Jiko, an HIV/AIDS orphan with her brothers and sisters
South Africa 5 (62KB JPEG) – the orphans old home
Vanuatu
Story: download Vanuatu homeowner (314KB WORD)

Photos
Vanuatu 1 (324KB JPEG) – typical housing in Vanuatu
Vanuatu 2 (83KB JPEG) – building in action
Vanuatu 3 (58KB JPEG) – building in action
Vanuatu 4 (65KB JPEG) – building in action
Vanuatu 5 (80KB JPEG) – building in action
Corporate volunteer teams
In December 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami struck 12 countries, killing at least 180,000 people and leaving 1.7 million people homeless. The corporate community around the globe mobilized in an unprecedented way to help us build new homes, and Great Britain alone sent around 440 volunteers to Sri Lanka.

Volunteers 1 (507KB JPEG) – Diageo
Volunteers 2 (490KB JPEG) – Freshfields
Volunteers 3 (648KB JPEG) – Reuters
Volunteers 4 (1.45MB JPEG) – Saatchi & Saatchi
Volunteers 5 (805KB JPEG) – Serco Group
Volunteers 6 (675KB JPEG) – Serco Group