2.5km_barefoot_walk

Everyday, people in developing  countries & disaster-stricken places make their way through these  undesirable conditions - barefoot. The Habitat-Barclays Bare Your Sole 2012 barefoot walk is an initiative that lets us all support these children and adults who live in dire conditions, raising much needed funds for projects to improve these people's living  conditions by building homes and fighting poverty.

ABOUT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Habitat for Humanity (HFH)  is a non-profit Christian housing organisation with a mission to eliminate poverty housing worldwide by building simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner families themselves and volunteers.

Habitat for Humanity builds for people of all backgrounds, races and religions to provide needy families with a simple and decent place to live in.

Since 1976, Habitat has served more than 500,000 families by welcoming people of all races, religions and nationalities to construct, rehabilitate or preserve homes; by advocating for fair and just housing policies; and by providing training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions.

Through volunteer labour and donations of money and materials,  Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the  help of the homeowner (partner) families. Habitat houses are sold to partner families at no profit, financed with affordable,  no-interest loans. The homeowners' monthly mortgage payments are  used to build still more Habitat houses.

Habitat is not a giveaway program. In addition to a down payment  and the monthly mortgage payments, homeowners invest hundreds of  hours of their own labor -- sweat equity -- into building their  Habitat house and the houses of others.