Editorial
Dear Friends,
We’re about to finish this semester with the closing of the fiscal year of Habitat for Humanity Brazil. In the following fiscal exercise, our organization will be improving the building projects of decent and affordable houses. A good change is that HFH Brazil is starting to think about accessibility when designing their houses.
In this edition of our newsletter, we will talk about accessible houses under the point of view of a challenge we will be working with from now on. Besides, we bring some examples of micro credit for housing financing, a modality of credit that may be asked also by families of a monthly income of up to 1 minimum wage.
We also present the partnership with Amanco, established since 2004 motivated by the successful relationship of an international alliance. Amanco is the leader in Latin America in the production and distribution of fluid conduction systems for hydro sanitation, irrigation and deep water wells. Finally, we invite you to know the Guarai project and this special moment of international volunteers in days of service.
Enjoy the reading of these subjects and about housing news and keep talking with us. Suggestions and comments are always welcome.
Important: next semester our newsletter starts to be bimonthly. See you in August!
Fraternally,
Ademar de Oliveira Marques
Diretor Executivo
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Foreign volunteers help 60 families from Guarai city to have a decent place to live
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Photo - Habitat para a Humanidade Brasil |
From June 17 to July 15, three teams of volunteers from several countries all over the world will be helping Habitat for Humanity Brazil in a community development project. The objective is to help low income families living in substandard conditions in Guaraí, a city located in Tocantins State, 178 Km away from the capital Palmas. The project consists of building 60 affordable, decent and safe houses. Entrepreneurs, small sized companies, other non profit organizations and the local and federal governments are the main supporters.
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Housing Microfinance: an opportunity that deserves our focus
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Photo - Habitat para a Humanidade Brasil |
With about 3,100 houses built all over 20 cities of eight Brazilian States (Ceará, Goiás, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Tocantins and Rio Grande do Sul), Habitat for Humanity Brazil has given the opportunity of low income families access a modality of financing that provides them the right to decent, affordable and safe homes. This credit granted by HFH Brazil is destined to families with monthly income of up to three minimum wages, and this sum can be paid back in up to 72 months, provided the installments does not exceed 20% of the familiar income.
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The national agreement between HFH and Amanco Group in Brazil
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Ms. Magda Andréia Vieira with her husband and children - Photo - Viviane de Araújo |
In August 2004, Habitat for Humanity Brazil established an Alliance with Amanco Group in Brazil. This was motivated by the successful international partnership that has been settled up in several countries around Latin America and the Caribbean, as Ecuador, Honduras and El Salvador.
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Accessible Houses: A Challenge for HFH Brazil
The vision of Habitat for Humanity expresses a future where we will be living in “a world where everyone has a decent place to live”. By decent place or, instead, decent house, we call that one which has the minimum conditions of habitability, such as security, comfort, salubrity, proximity of transportation and public services, job opportunities, accessibility, amongst others.
But what does “accessibility” means in the context of an inclusive society? In general, the term is related to the easiness in obtaining and using properties and services: it may be the access to education or information, for instance. However, when we talk about a city, a street or a house, we are speaking about a specific type of accessibility, which elapses of the relationships established between the people and the environment.
In accordance with the Brazilian norm technique NBR-9050, accessibility means the “existence of venues, buildings, furniture, urban equipments, and other spaces and elements that can be made use of by anyone, regardless of any physical, sensorial or cognitive limitations”. The norm presents some restrictions, but we won’t promote a theoretical discussion about the concept in this moment.
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