Habitat For Humanity Bulgaria

Habitat for Humanity Bulgaria or ‘Podslon za Chovechestvoto’ Foundation, founded in 2001, is an ecumenical organization thatworks in cooperation with those in need of decent and affordable homes, as well as with representatives of all communities, so that the inadequate housing conditions in Bulgaria become unacceptable and everybody lives in a decent and affordable home.

Since 2001, more than 30 families have benefited from our program, among them single mothers, sight impaired people and pensioners. In 2005, Habitat Bulgaria completed their first project, an eight-family home in the Slatina district, Sofia. Since then, we have focused on renovation and repair. We are now developing new projects to help us achieve a greater scope of influence.

The Goals of the Foundation are:

• through its activities to promote the idea for decent and affordable housing, to motivate the public opinion that the right to decent housing is a human right, as well as to stimulate representatives of all parts of society to actively participate in the processes for eradicating poverty housing;
• to inspire, support and unite initiatives and innovative methods for creating affordable and decent housing;
• to assist in solving the housing problems of persons and families who do not own homes and do not have enough means to purchase or build homes, as well as to persons whose homes are in substandard conditions and who lack sufficient means to improve them;
• to promote the ideas for organizational partnership, community cooperation, volunteerism, mutual care and respect to other persons needs;
• by creating adequate housing environment to promote and support the development of sustainable communities;
• to support the social integration and the personal realization of people in these newly developed communities;
• to promote and affirm the humane moral values and principles.