Deadline: 15 February 2016
The Habitat for Humanity invites youth from across Asia-Pacific Region for its Young Leaders Build Grants program, ensuring support to the families in need of decent housing.
Young people will volunteer, fundraise and speak out for the need for decent homes as a way out of poverty and toward self-sustainability.
Program Objectives
The objectives of the program are to:
- Incentivize youth organization/groups to undertake advocacy activities during HYLB by offering an advocacy micro grant of US$250.00.
- Motivate young people to be advocates of housing issues, leveraging their HYLB participation to strengthen Habitat for Humanity’s advocacy activities.
- Encourage young people to raise public awareness on housing issues they face and offer possible solutions how to address the challenges through change of system, policies or procedure.
- Provide a platform for young people to influence housing policies through various means.
Awards and Benefits
- At least 40 innovative advocacy projects are supported with the grant amount of $250 per accepted application. The grant amount will be used to implement the proposed activity.
- In order to facilitate easy, consistent and relevant actions, some sample messages from the HYLB Advocacy Toolkit will be available for applicants to use. Other support will be in fine tuning and finalizing the concepts and activities.
Eligibility Criteria
The grant is applicable to youth organization and groups. Habitat for Humanity national organizations can facilitate and encourage local youth organizations, Campus Chapters and schools to apply, and help develop the advocacy project.
How to Apply
The applicants are required to submit completely filled application form available in the website, via email.
For more information, please visit Habitat Young Leaders Build Grant 2016.
