Successful home improvement and community support practices of Habitat for Humanity Bulgaria
Boryana Parvanova, Habitat for Humanity Bulgaria, Bulgaria
Habitat for Humanity Bulgaria is a national organization of Habitat for Humanity International – a global organization working in more than 90 countries worldwide on housing issues and disaster response. Since 1976, the organization has built and repaired over 850,000 homes around the world and has provided simple, affordable housing to more than 5 million people. Through its activities Habitat Bulgaria promotes the concept of adequate housing as a basic human right and works for raising awareness in the society towards elimination of poverty housing. The organization supports solving the housing issues of individuals and families who do not own their homes or don’t have enough money to buy, build or rent one, as well as persons living in inadequate housing that do not have sufficient funds to repair and improve it.
Habitat for Humanity has been operating in Bulgaria since 2001, and the main activities of the organization are focused on four strategic directions:
- Building new homes;
- Interest-free housing microfinance;
- Micro-lending for home improvements and residential energy efficiency;
- Financial Education Trainings;
- Participation in policy development and the development of housing and housing-related legislation;
- The implementation of social housing projects under OP “Regional development” and the implementation of projects for the development of innovative insulation from recycled textiles and textile waste under OP “Competitiveness”.
Our presentation will focus on the following programme initiatives:
- Micro-lending for home improvements and the project “Social protection and alleviation from deprivation for at-risk children and adolescents in Bulgaria through improving living conditions and other community-based support”
- Housing mediator – new community-based social service.
- Educational Workshops incl. Financial Literacy and Family Budgeting Training and Home Maintenance Workshops
Maintenance Workshops
