{"id":14211,"date":"2024-07-09T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T02:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/?p=14211"},"modified":"2024-07-09T14:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T05:10:03","slug":"habitat-japan-celebrates-20th-anniversary-with-volunteer-build-in-igatpuri-india-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/archive\/14211","title":{"rendered":"Habitat Japan Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Volunteer Build in Igatpuri, India"},"content":{"rendered":"

In <\/span>February<\/span> 2024, fourteen university students from across Japan's campus chapters participated in a special volunteer build in the village of Igatpuri, located in Nashik, Maharashtra State, India as part of a greater project constructing eleven homes. This event marked a significant milestone, celebrating Habita<\/span>t<\/span> Japan\u2019s <\/span>20th anniversary and being the first<\/span> Habitat build since the onset of the pandemic and attended by longtime Habitat supporters. Joining student volunteers were nine adult members gathered from the U.S. and Japan, making for 23 team members total who worked five days building four homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The village in Igatpuri where the build took place was home to a displaced minority population, with makeshift homes built out of mud and vinyl sheets on a plot of land granted to the people by the Indian government. To construct safe and decent permanent housing for villagers, the Indian Government partnered with Habitat India and launched this project to build eleven houses.<\/span>

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