Humane Human Settlements - The Agency

26/03/2014

Humane Human Settlements - The Agency

But we can beat this!

The South African HOUSING CHALLENGE: Housing backlog = 2.3 million, Homeless people = 12 million, Total number of slums = 2500.

03/02/2014

Thank you guys for your support. Our Professional Team is ready to arrive in the country. We are just waiting for the Ekurhuleni Metro to give go ahead. Thank you again.

10/01/2014

The South African HOUSING CHALLENGE: Housing backlog = 2.3 million, Homeless people = 12 million, Total number of slums = 2500.

09/01/2014

An Architect has just joined the team... And he is a Professor! Let glory go to Jesus!

09/01/2014

Young people in slums are more likely to work in the informal sector than their non-slump peers. Despite some advantages, informal employment ends up trapping slum dwelling and other low-income young people in perpetual poverty Habitat.

09/01/2014

We all know the saying 'There is no place like Home'. Who in this life doesn't need a place to call Home?

09/01/2014

In the movies, when one is in trouble, they either express the desire to or are told TO GO HOME!

09/01/2014

Did you know: that Jesus promised a Mansion (i.e. a Big House) in Heaven to His disciples?

09/01/2014

Did you know: that the word Base is a European borrowing from the Hebrew word Beit, which means a House?

09/01/2014

Did you know: that the fist letter of the Hebrew text of the Bible is a symbol for a House?

08/01/2014

Did you know: Living under a constant threat of eviction from where you stay is another form of homelessness, known as Insecure Tenure.

08/01/2014

Did you know: Having a shelter that is not durable nor protects you from harsh weather conditions is also a form of homelessness.

08/01/2014

Did you know: Another term for Homelessness is Rough Sleeping.

08/01/2014

Did you know: More that 3 people sharing a room is a form of homelessness.

08/01/2014

Improving the lives of slum dwellers is the best way to achieve all the Millenium Development Goals. Improving housing conditions and providing for water and sanitation will not only save lives among the very poor, but will also support education and health Habitat.

08/01/2014

The Vusimuzi councilors are very helpful. May God bless them.

08/01/2014

Good morning, friends. Our town planners are really excited. We must pray for engineers to sign in. This is about helping fellow men to have a roof over their heads.

07/01/2014

It is only Town Planners that are making their way to Project Vusimuzi. Where are the engineers?

07/01/2014

The population of slum dwellers around the world continues to grow at around 10% every year, intensifying the problem worldwide Habitat.

07/01/2014

On my first ever visit to the Vusimuzi informal settlement, an elderly lady ran to me and gave me an orange. She named me Moses, because 'I had come to take them out of slum life.' I almost cried.

07/01/2014

North Africa is the only sub-region in the developing world where both the number and proportion of slum dwellers have steadily declined Habitat.

07/01/2014

China and India alone achieved the global slum target by improving the lives of 125 million slum dwellers Habitat.

07/01/2014

No single country has managed to halve their slum populations. The more successful (Indonesia, Morocco, Argentina, Columbia, Egypt, Dominican Republic) reduced slum incidence by 30% to nearly 50% - UN Habitat.

07/01/2014

The Millennium Slum Target has been achieved, improving the lives of 227 million people, but only because it was set too low at the outset; 100 million was only 10% of the global slum population Habitat.

07/01/2014

Fellow human beings live in inhumane conditions. It is everyone's duty to help afford them decent homes, so they may live in dignity.

07/01/2014

The Agency is grateful to God for the Town Planners, both local and international, who are coming to add their wight onto Project Vusimuzi. Amen!

07/01/2014

A young man wants to get married and has to take his girlfriend to his parents, who live in a Shack. What a blow to his self esteem! These are the people the Agency wants to help have a decent place to call home.

07/01/2014

The ambition the Agency has is to upgrade the Vusimuzi informal settlement into a formal town. This is no child's play, but with God, the Agency believes, ALL things are possible.

12/06/2012

Lion King Creche pupils' dream homes!

06/04/2012

The guys in the Vusumusi informal settlement have started saving some money to help the move out of homelesness. I told them that help would only come if others saw that we are also helping ourselves out. Besides, healthy self regard will only manifest when one remembers that they never simply waited for handouts from somewhere to get of poverty and homelesness.

01/11/2011

November 1, 2011

11/11/2010

In urban areas, shelter deprivations and environmental risks combine to
hinder people's ability to escape hunger, and exposure to infectious
illnesses creates a vicious cycle where children are constantly
malnourished.

29/10/2010

October 04, 2010 (World Habitat Day Event)

28/08/2010

October 4 will be world habitat day.