Saturday, July 18, 2009

Welcome to my Blog on Housing the Poor

If we can build castles in the air why not think of a small house for the poor!

Every one dreams of an own house. In our case all that we have to do is to ring up our most favoured lender and there they are at our door step. The poor too dream of owning houses but mostly remain unfulfilled. When we dreamt of our houses our family would have joined with us to plan the dream house. With changing times- thanks to all the efforts in empowering families, creating livelihoods and introducing microfinance - many around the globe have now joined together to dream of own houses for the poor. As a person who was chasing dreams of providing own houses for the poor for the past ten years, I am happy to see the change that is in the air.

In communities where avenues for women empowerment, microfinance, education of children, health of the family, and remunerative livelihood have been created, we now need to look at the poor owning houses.

In the coming days my blog will look at sharing experiences and knowledge with people interested in housing the poor.
P. Uday Shankar.

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