Money for houses in Nepal

The Habitat for Humanity Global Village Project seminar held at Pearl Beach Memorial Hall has raised $2500 to build houses in Nepal.

More than 150 people attended the seminar to raise money for the Habitat for Humanity Global Village Project in Nepal, according to event organiser Mr Andrew Stanger of Pearl Beach.

Mr Stanger is an active member of Habitat for Humanity and will be travelling to Nepal in October to work as a volunteer on one of its Global Village Projects.

There he will join 19 other volunteers to build houses for displaced families.

Mr Stanger said there are currently more than 108,000 displaced people living under bamboo and tarpaulin shelters in camps on the Nepal-Sikkim border.

Global Village Program volunteers raise funds and physically take part in the building of houses in countries affected by natural disasters, poverty, civil unrest and war.

Each house built by volunteers costs approximately $1200 and proceeds from the Pearl Beach seminar will be put toward these costs.

"We raised far more money than we expected on the night, so that was terrific," Mr Stanger said.

Mt Everest mountaineer Mr Lincoln Hall was guest speaker at the seminar.

Mr Stanger will be taking two months away from his "normal life" on the Peninsula to volunteer for the Global Village Project in Nepal.

For more information or to become a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity visit www.habitat.org.au or phone 9919 7000.

Press release, 27 Jul 2008 Lynne Lillico, Pearl Beach Progress Association