EZRA MILLSTEIN PHOTOGRAPHY

Habitat Latin America

Eight month-old Felipe Salazar lives with his parents Jose (pictured) and Aida, in a home in the Charlotte Model Community, which Habitat for Humanity El Salvador started developing in June 2007. The community, which was named to honor Habitat El Salvador's primary affiliate partner in the project, will provide land, housing, basic infrastructure (water, electricity, and sewage treatment), streets with sidewalks, green areas, a daycare and community center to 60 low-income, landless families. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
An Easter procession passes through the streets of Antigua, in honor of Holy Week in Guatemala. A Habitat for Humanity Build Louder advocacy team was in the country building Habitat homes, meeting with local NGOs and government officials, and learning more about housing issues.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Elmer Sanchez (right) and his son William (left) inside their family's shack, in the rundown squatter community of Las Victorias on the outskirts of the capital. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
Worshippers at the National Cathedral. Although more than half of El Salvador's residents are Catholic, Protestantism is growing rapidly and represents nearly 30% of the population.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
4 year-old Franklin Rojo stands in his family's smokey kitchen. Habitat for Humanity volunteers helped to build a new kitchen with better air circulation, which will improve thie respiratory health.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
59 year-old Nadia Alfaro lives with her family in a Habitat home in the Brisas del Sur community. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
One year-old Catherine Mellssa Vasquez plans on the floor near the door of her family's small home. Habitat volunteers helped to renovate the kitchen, inproving ventilation and ensuring better respiratory health for Catherine and her family.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Volunteer Vincent DiPentino, from Philadelphia, PA, cuts cinderblocks for a Habitat home renovation project.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Four year-old Racquel Aparenga plays on a swing in front of her family's Habitat home in the Brisas del Sur community. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
A lightning storm passes through the Cordillera del Merendon, behind San Pedro Sula. © Ezra Millstein
   
A young boy stands inside his family's dilapidated house. Most of the Chortí indigenous families of Western Honduras live in extreme poverty. Their subsistence economy keeps them from accessing credit sources, and thus from improving their houses. Their lack of resources forces them to resort to low-quality building materials, meaning that families live in substandard, overcrowded, unhealthy conditions. They are exposed to dust and extreme humidity, and the mud walls of their houses provide ideal living conditions for chinche picuda bugs, which cause Chagas Disease.Habitat for Humanity Honduras is helping to replace the Chorti’s thatched roofs with metal sheeting, to renovate and plaster crumbling walls, and to install concrete floors. With the financial support of the Gaston County Habitat affiliate in North Carolina, 113 houses have been improved, and eight new houses have been built in the villages of Carrizalón, Agua Caliente, Otuta and La Pintada. 847 people have benefited from these projects. ©Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Habitat for Humanity Honduras helped to renovate the floors of 82 year-old Catalina Ortiz's house. Most of the Chortí indigenous families of Western Honduras live in extreme poverty. Their subsistence economy keeps them from accessing credit sources, and thus from improving their houses. Their lack of resources forces them to resort to low-quality building materials, meaning that families live in substandard, overcrowded, unhealthy conditions. They are exposed to dust and extreme humidity, and the mud walls of their houses provide ideal living conditions for chinche picuda bugs, which cause Chagas Disease.Habitat for Humanity Honduras is helping to replace the Chorti’s thatched roofs with metal sheeting, to renovate and plaster crumbling walls, and to install concrete floors. With the financial support of the Gaston County Habitat affiliate in North Carolina, 113 houses have been improved, and eight new houses have been built in the villages of Carrizalón, Agua Caliente, Otuta and La Pintada. 847 people have benefited from these projects. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
Community leader Wilfredo Morazan stands behind a set of blueprints for his squatter community, and discusses land rights with members of Habitat for Humanity's advocacy team. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
Moreira Dunia inside her mother's house. The floor and roof were renovated with assistance from Habitat for Humanity Honduras. Most of the Chortí indigenous families of Western Honduras live in extreme poverty. Their subsistence economy keeps them from accessing credit sources, and thus from improving their houses. Their lack of resources forces them to resort to low-quality building materials, meaning that families live in substandard, overcrowded, unhealthy conditions. They are exposed to dust and extreme humidity, and the mud walls of their houses provide ideal living conditions for chinche picuda bugs, which cause Chagas Disease.Habitat for Humanity Honduras is helping to replace the Chorti’s thatched roofs with metal sheeting, to renovate and plaster crumbling walls, and to install concrete floors. With the financial support of the Gaston County Habitat affiliate in North Carolina, 113 houses have been improved, and eight new houses have been built in the villages of Carrizalón, Agua Caliente, Otuta and La Pintada. 847 people have benefited from these projects. © Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
A girl sleeps in a doorway in the Zona Colonial of Santo Domingo.© Habitat for Humanity International
     
  
Heroina de los Santos Mateo is 87 years old, and she lives in the Guachupita neighborhood of San Juan de la Maguana. She has seven children, who have all moved away. 20,000 people live in the impoverished area.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
A young girl in front of her home in the La Lata neighborhood, on the banks of the Ozama River in Santo Domingo. The area contains more than 200 squatter houses with as many as ten people in each house. Homes are cobbled together with rusted pieces of metal, and have no plumbing. Raw sewage runs through the streets, and the neighborhood frequently floods when the river rises.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
A Habitat home under construction in the Vila Progresso neighborhood of Sao Leopoldo. 26 million Brazilians living in urban areas do not have access to water; 14 million are not served by rubbish collection; 83 million are not connected to sewage systems.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
A lone figure watches the Sao Paulo skyline at night.© Habitat for Humanity International
   
Valdenice de Oliveira sits on the porch of her Habitat home with her seven year-old son Vandeildo. Before Habitat started building concrete houses here in 2006, most homes were made of dried mud, which not only required constant patching and reshaping but also served as a breeding ground for a type of beetle that poses a serious health threat to humans.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
   
The oldest house in Varjada is made of mud and sticks. It is more than 100 years old. This is the kind of house the residents lived in before Habitat built new homes.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein
     
  
Children walk through the dangerous Favela dos Trihos. Habitat for Humanity Brazil works in more than 21 cities in eight Brazilian states: Ceará, Goiás, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and Tocantins, assisting more than 3,000 families.© Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein