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Know one is going to die of the cold in Thailand if they don't have a house, a basic tin roof with 4 poles is all you need. I get so fed up with the children of yuppies who have been brought up with every opportunity in life feeling sorry that others don't have what they have. I personally don't have a University degree, I don't have any tertiary qualification and I never finished high school, my parents lived on well fair, and were evicted to the streets on many occasions when I was a child, but I can tell you I'm quite capable of standing on my own to feet and I still managed to buy a house for my self and my parents. There is no indignity to being poor or not having a house, it's just a different life style to what you have. I would not waist any money on a charity like this, It's only the habitat of wild life that needs protecting.

I cannot find the logic or sensible nature behind this comment. The people in Thailand and hundreds of other places in the world, for that matter, are barely making it from one day to the next. We are not thrusting these people into an unwelcome or unwarranted lifestyle of luxury. It's truly not Habitat's mission to arbitrarily profile homeless or impoverished people and assume they would desire a "better" life. These families are contacting Habitat in an plea of help and we, volunteers, are reaching out to them. I'm not certain of your quoted circumstances, but these families are caring for themselves, their children, and their parental generations, many times all under one roof. These people are striving to escape such an unstable lifestyle to provide for themselves and their offspring in the future. Being poor is certainly not an indignity, but having the opportunity to not worry, day in and day out about the future of your home, your income, your children's welfare, education, is definitely a blessing. Moreover, if you would like the biographies section of our website expanded to contain the life stories of each of our members, I'd be happy to do that. We are not the sons and daughters of yuppies, who were born silver spoon in hand. We have worked hard to get where we are, and we acknowledge the privledges granted to us that many people do not have, and are utilizing them to create awareness for certain global issues that we feel sentiment towards.