A Non-Leaking Roof Over Their Heads

About one quarter of the world population live in substandard housing, and some are here in comparatively well-off New Zealand.

Private and charitable initiatives such as "Habitat for Humanity" address this problem using volunteer labour and donated funds. So well thought-of is that organisation that the former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, along with his wife Rosalyn, each picked up a hammer and joined in the making of a house. Our own Governor-General has joined in too. The programme discusses how you might volunteer.

This initiative has its roots as far back as 1942 in Koinonia Farm, a Christian community in the USA, where people strive to live a simple, peaceful, shared life – one that challenges racism, militarism, and materialism.

The guest this week In Conversation with Noel Cheer on Triangle Television is the Marketing Director of Habitat for Humanity in New Zealand, David Lawson.

Triangle Television, Wednesday 26th of September at 7:00pm and repeated Thursday 27th of September at 12 noon. (Note this change of time).

Triangle Television, the home of original public broadcasting, can be received in the Auckland region on UHF Channels 41, 42 and 52.

Triangle Television is also transmitted live on streaming TV – an emerging technology – which can be received (as a live feed) on broadband-connected computers and on Internet-connected television sets throughout New Zealand. Point your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, ...) to www.ecasttv.co.nz

In Conversation with Noel Cheer receives funding from New Zealand on Air. This has enabled Triangle Television to introduce viewers to over 200 New Zealanders on Air during nearly 6 years of unbroken weekly broadcasting.

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