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Close Window Ambassador Robert Blake joins a volunteer team from the U.S. Embassy to pour concrete floors and lay tile roofs at a Habitat for Humanity building site in Moratuwa.
Ambassador Robert Blake joins a volunteer team from the U.S. Embassy to pour concrete floors and lay tile roofs at a Habitat for Humanity building site in Moratuwa.
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Ambassador Robert Blake joins a volunteer team from the U.S. Embassy to pour concrete floors and lay tile roofs at a Habitat for Humanity building site in Moratuwa.
Ambassador Robert Blake joins a volunteer team from the U.S. Embassy to pour concrete floors and lay tile roofs at a Habitat for Humanity building site in Moratuwa.

U.S. Embassy helps Habitat for Humanity build affordable homes in Moratuwa

Colombo, November 14, 2008: On November 7, Ambassador Robert Blake, Deputy Chief of Mission James Moore, and other staff of the U.S. Embassy Colombo volunteered for a day with Habitat for Humanity to provide impoverished Sri Lankan communities with decent housing.

Habitat for Humanity Sri Lanka works to provide simple, low-cost homes, not only to those people affected by the 2004 tsunami but also for those affected by poverty.  U.S. Embassy volunteers laid roof tiles and poured cement floors at two homes for families in Moratuwa.  “For years Habitat for Humanity has been organizing volunteers and materials to build homes for needy families around the world, including in the United States,” said Ambassador Blake. “We’re happy to have this opportunity to donate time and energy to improve living standards for less-fortunate communities.”

Habitat for Humanity Sri Lanka recruits unskilled volunteers from throughout the country to build housing with impoverished or disaster afflicted communities. To date they have built over 10,000 homes around the island.  Founded in 1976, Habitat for Humanity International currently works in 100 countries, building a house every 26 minutes.  By the end of 2008, Habitat houses will be sheltering 1.5 million people worldwide.