Who are these Habitat people?

My wonderful team in Barskoon - only a very small part of Habitat for Humanity.

Well, I was wondering the same thing myself a couple of months ago. When I was in Belize in May, I was quickly reaching the point where I had to come up with some solid plans for Kyrghyzstan – it is not really a place where you just go without having any plans.

Since I really wanted to do some voluntary work, I just googled “voluntary + Kyrghyzstan” (+ of course I had to try a number of other ways to spell the country, a pity that no two people can agree as to how!), and from the different options that came up, Habitat for Humanity kind of stood out.

Not only is the cause very worthy, it was also work that I knew that I would love to do (build houses), and not least important, the organization seemed very solid and reliable.

My personal experience has been excellent. The quality of the organization, both at headquarters in the US and here in Kyrghyzstan has been of the highest standards, and all the arrangements has been great. I especially recommend them fir anyone doing voluntary work for the first time, since they are great at easing you into things.

And of course our team leaders, and indeed the whole team were great, but more about that another time…

More information about Habitat for Humanity can be found at http://www.habitat.org/