Who We Are

Our Goal

Our goal is to eliminate poverty housing around Zambia by working in partnership with poor and low-income families. Habitat Zambia believes that every man, woman and child should have a safe and affordable place to live. This is provided through holistic solutions such as secure land tenure, provision of safe drinking water and sanitation, housing finance and advocacy.

Vision

A world where everyone has a decent place to live

Mission Statement

Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

Strategic Objectives

• 01 Build Community Impact/Improve Housing Conditions
  Serve families through sustainable construction and housing support services. Leverage shelter as a catalyst for community transformation. Grow capacity to serve the most vulnerable, the disaster-affected and the urbanizing world.
• 02 Build Sector Impact/ Partner to Increase Shelter Access
  Support market approaches that increase products, services and financing for affordable housing. Promote policies and systems that advance access to adequate, affordable housing.
• 03 Build Societal Impact/ Inspire Action to End Poverty Housing
  Serve as a leading voice in growing awareness of housing as a critical foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty. Mobilize volunteers as hearts, hands and voices for the cause of adequate, affordable housing
• 04 Build a Sustainable Organization/Mobilize Resources and Steward Them Faithfully
  Fund the mission, grow skills and leadership capabilities, operate with excellence

Core Principles

Demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ​

We undertake our work to demonstrate the love and teachings of Jesus, acting in all ways in accordance with the belief that God’s love and grace abounds for all. We desire to be “hands and feet” of His love and grace in our world. We believe that, through faith, the minuscule can be multiplied to accomplish the magnificent, and that, in faith, respectful relationships can grow among all people.

Focus on shelter.

We have chosen, as our means of manifesting God’s love, to create opportunities for all people to live in decent, durable shelter. We put faith into action by helping to build, renovate or preserve homes, and by partnering with others to accelerate and broaden access to affordable housing as a foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty.

Advocate for affordable housing

In response to the prophet Micah’s call to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with God, we promote decent, affordable housing for all, and we support the global community’s commitment to housing as a basic human right. We will advocate for just and fair housing policies to eliminate the constraints that contribute to poverty housing. In all of our work, we will seek to put shelter on hearts and minds in such powerful ways that poverty housing becomes socially, politically and religiously unacceptable.

Promote dignity and hope

We believe that no one lives in dignity until everyone can live in dignity. We believe that every person has something to contribute and something to gain from creating communities in which all people have decent, affordable places to live. We believe that dignity and hope are best achieved through equitable, accountable partnerships.

Support transformational and sustainable community development.​

We view our work as successful when it transforms lives and promotes positive and lasting social, economic and spiritual change within a community; when it is based on mutual trust and fully shared accomplishments; and when it demonstrates responsible stewardship of all resources entrusted to us.