Habitat for Humanity at Juniata College

Juniata College Habitat for Humanity was established as an official club on April 10, 1992 by a handful of students. This started many traditions including Shak-a-thon. Throughout the years new traditions developed like the collegiate challenge service trips during spring break, hire-a-habitator, Habi-auction, New York times, and global village trips. Today, Juniata College Habitat for Humanity is one of Juniata’s largest and most active clubs.

International Habitat for Humanity Organization

Who? HfHI was founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller along with his wife Linda. Habitat for Humanity’s work is accomplished at the community level by affiliates – independent, locally run, nonprofit organizations. Each affiliate coordinates all aspects of a Habitat home building in its local area. Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races, and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.

What? Habitat for Humanity International is a non-profit, ecumenical housing ministry. HfHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat has built more than 175,000 houses around the world, providing more than 750,000 people in more than 3,000 communities with safe, decent and affordable shelter.

Where? Habitat is a worldwide, grass-roots movement. There are more than 1,900 active in the US and 83 countries around the world. The Juniata College chapter of Habitat builds with local counties, across the country on Spring Break and around the world.

How? Volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit, financed with affordable, no-interest loans. The homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments are used to build more Habitat Houses. Habitat is not a giveaway program. Homeowners invest hundreds of hours of their own labor – sweat equity – into building their Habitat house and the houses of others.

When? Now, you have the opportunity to make an impact on poverty housing in your area by joining the JC Campus Chapter.

Why? To eliminate poverty housing worldwide! The number one thing to know about poverty housing is that you can do something about it!

If you would like to learn more, visit their web site at http://www.habitat.org.

Habitat for Humanity Statistics

• Habitat affiliates are in every state in the U.S.
• Approximately one-third of HfH houses are built in the United States
• 2117 Affiliates worldwide
  • 1620 in the U.S.
  • 497 International Affiliates
• 691 Campus Chapters
• Average three-bedroom U.S. HfH home is 1100 square feet
• Average Mortgage is 20 years
• Average number of sweat equity hours for a partner family is 423
• Homeowners have a foreclosure rate of less than 2%
• Fastest HfH home ever built was in Manukau City, New Zealand in 3 hours, 44 minutes, 59 seconds
• Roughly 4,876 16 penny nails are used to build a HfH two-bedroom home
• About 650 pieces of lumber are used to build a HfH house
• About 40 gallons of paint are used on a HfH house
• HfH ranked #1 in lowest cost builder in the U.S. (Professional Builder)