India joins rest of the world in marking World Habitat Day on October 3, 2011. The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day to draw attention to the current global state of the human habitat and to push toward adequate housing for all.
Habitat for Humanity, a Christian non-profit organisation that addresses issues of poverty housing, will engage in a month-long observance, highlighting challenges of housing and sustainability faced by communities across India, a Christian Today report said. “We would join nations across the globe in marking World Habitat Day, a time when we can highlight the problems of homelessness and the challenges in addressing the issue,” said Justin Jebakumar, director of Habitat for Humanity India, Delhi HRC.
“Habitat’s vision is to have a world where everyone can have a decent place to live, as safe shelter brings dignity and honor to all especially women and children. To achieve this, we aim to develop innovative housing and shelter assistance models,” he expressed. For this year, the United Nations has chosen the theme ‘Cities and Climate Change’ to point to impacts of disasters resulting from climate change.
“World Habitat Day falls during the month when demographers predict our planet’s seven billionth inhabitant will be born. The future that this child and its generation will inherit depends to a great degree on how we handle the competing pressures of growing population growth, urbanization and climate change,” UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon said.
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