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Title: Yong, TeckMeng
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Yong, Teck-Meng Director, Chinese Regions
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What is Habitat For Humanity?
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- Habitat for Humanity is a Christian housing
charity dedicated to the eradication of poverty
housing worldwide - Working with volunteers of all faith, background
and nationalities - Building houses with homeowners of all faith,
background and nationalities - Started in Georgia, USA 30 years ago
- Operating in more than 90 countries worldwide
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HFH Simple Vision No More Poverty-housingHFH
Simple Goal A world where every person has a
decent place to live.
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Volunteers
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- Ex-US President Jimmy Carter
- 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
- Volunteer of Habitat for Humanity since 1984
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Volunteerism
- Catching Habitatis
- Habitatis Maximus
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Diaspora GivingPersonal Experience
- Race
- Language/dialect group
- Family Name
- Country of origin
- Province of origin
- County of origin
- Village of origin
- Location of origin
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Diaspora GivingThe Singapore Model
- Official Promotion of Self-Help along Racial
lines - Within every community in Singapore, there are
some groups that face difficulties and hardships.
The most practical way to help them is to
encourage the respective communities to organise
themselves and mobilise resources for the needy.
This taps into the natural desire of the
community to help their weaker members. - Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of
Singapore, 22 May 2007
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- For the Chinese CDAC (Chinese Development
Assistance Council) - For the Malays Yayasan Mendaki
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- For the Indians SINDA (Singapore Indian
Development Association) - For the Eurasians Eurasian Association
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Diaspora Volunteerism
- May 20th 2008 email to Habitat Singapore
- We have an interest from Berita Harian (Malay
language newspaper) whos keen on doing a story
about a predominantly-Malay students group.
Please let us know if theres a suitable group of
participants that we can feature in Berita.
Thank you.
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Habitat Volunteers
- Koreans/Japanese
- Chinese
- Indians
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Dilemma
- Inclusive, Egalitatian Ecumenical
- Mission statement
- Versus
- Targeted Group Approach
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Strategy
- Acknowledge/Accept Diaspora Volunteerism/Giving
- Facilitate Diaspora Volunteerism/Giving
- Expand scope of Diaspora Involvement
- Include Partners and
other Diaspora Groupings
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- More Than Our People
- Building houses
- Building lives
- Building families
- Building hopes
- Its About Making a Difference for All!
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