Habitat for Humanity (HFH) is an international non-profit organisation that aims to eliminate poverty housing by building simple, decent, affordable homes and by making decent housing a matter of conscience and action. Throughout our work in Ireland and around the world we contribute significantly to the achievement of the MDGs on a daily basis.

As a self-build programme, HFH does not build houses for people; it builds with them. We work together with homeowners and volunteers to construct, renovate or refurbish homes, using donations of money, land and materials. Once completed, houses are sold to partner families at no profit, providing a hand up, rather than a hand out. HFH now works in nearly 100 countries and has built more than 350,000 houses around the world, providing more than 1,750,000 people in more than 3,000 communities with simple, decent, affordable homes. A HFH home is completed somewhere in the world every 21 minutes.