Delivering Affordable Housing and Basic Services

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy for Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, will deliver the opening remarks during the “Youth from Home for Homes” virtual conference, the peak of the 2021 Habitat for Humanity Young Leaders Build campaign. Over a hundred youth from the Asia-Pacific region have registered for the event, which also marks a decade of youth volunteerism for the cause of safe, affordable housing.

Joining the UN youth envoy for the conference will be young leaders who will present highlights from their volunteer led community-based projects in support of Habitat’s work during the pandemic.

The 2020 campaign saw over 2.6 million supporters from 16 countries and one Special Administrative Region in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 2012, over 17 million Habitat Young Leaders Build supporters have raised close to US$9 million in funds to help build houses and supported more than 33,300 families to achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves.