Habitat for Humanity Lesotho

Habitat for Humanity Lesotho helps build two-room homes with households comprised of orphans, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. The homes include safe sanitation facilities. We also advocate for security of land tenure and initiate ownership processes for vulnerable households to ensure they legally own the land before the home is built. All selected future homeowners participate in the building of their home, including collecting water, helping gather locally available materials (stones, for example) and construction activities under the close guidance of a building supervisor.

With a goal of transforming communities, prospective homeowners are further empowered through various trainings on inheritance rights and security of tenure to guard against property grabbing and disinheritance, personal hygiene and home maintenance. Knowledge gained through inheritance and property rights trainings has sparked an increase in the number of wills registered through various Habitat projects.

Advocacy

Habitat Lesotho advocates on behalf of vulnerable groups by disseminating information about property and inheritance rights and security of tenure and hosting call-in radio programs to raise awareness on the same subjects.

Trainings on property and inheritance rights as well as security of tenure are also offered to households served together with their community members with the aim of reducing unlawful evictions, property grabbing and/or disinheritance.