World Habitat Day

World habitat day is dedicated to helping people build adequate shelter for themselves and their families. The United Nations designated the first Monday and October as world habitat day. The first world habitat day was officially recognized back in 1985.

Did you know that millions of people in the world do not have a place to live? The level of homelessness is unfortunately at an all-time high worldwide. This is in part due to increased birthrates yearly and people living longer in life.

As decent and moral human beings each of us has to look inside ourselves and ask how can we help the people that are less fortunate than we are. If you're reading this renders his strong possibility that you have a roof over your head year electrics working and you actually have a computer. Millions of people around the world would be very happy to be in your position. In order to survive people need to food, water, shelter, clothing, any means to earn a living. Millions of people especially in underdeveloped countries such as Africa are missing at least one of these key components of survival. Many organizations such as the United Nations have been trying to help people around the world survive.

Water is the most critical of all elements of survival. A person can literally die of dehydration in three days without clean fresh drinking water. Food is very difficult for many people to obtain the human body can last upwards of ten days without food and there have been cases of people surviving much longer. Clothing is becoming less expensive and more readily accessible to the masses even the poor.

Shelter perhaps more than anything on the list is extremely difficult for many people to obtain. A new house can cost even in some of the underdeveloped countries tens of thousands of dollars to build.

This coming October please take that first Monday and spend some time helping out your local Habitat for Humanity organization you'll be helping some great people and also exhibiting the true spirit of world habitat day.