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Safe journey, and enjoy your time out there, i am sure that it will be very rewarding.

~ Cora   have a nice journey and enjoy your staying there!


~ lucian   O WOW !!! how wonderfu!l must check the links and of course GOOD LUCK :)))

~ Flick   Lovely blip!! have a good time.

How does habitat for Humanity pick the people to live in the houses that they build?

~ myaimistrue   Good for you! Have a great time and enjoy your adventure!

~ Poppy   I can't wait to see your blips from India. That area of Tamil Nadu is so familiar to me. If you can, make a trip to Vailankanni, the Lourdes of the East - It's utterly bizarre but such a welcoming place :)
The very best of luck and have a safe journey. I'm so excited for you :))

~ photofiend   Re: myaimistrue


To answer that, I'll tell you how the financial structure of getting a house works first.

A Habitat for Humanity house has an interest free mortgage, and as the home owner pays it off, that money then goes into building more homes. This alone can keep things fairly stable, but partnered with donations and volunteer work, the program grows exponentially. More houses are built, and more families find shelter. World wide.

To be elegible, you must display an appropriate financial need. Also, you must put in a minimum of 500 hours sweat equity on either your home, or another HFH home. What this means, is that you need to participate in the building of the homes.

So far, in India alone, there have been over 10,000 homes built. World wide there have been a staggering 200,000 homes built! The numbers keep growing thanks to volunteers, donors, and families that help with building and pay their mortgages. It's a very stable organization, and is having a significant impact on reversing poverty the world over.

~ Escaping_Erebus   Have a great trip!

~ squirk   Have a wonderful time and bring us many more blips - please.

~ G   brilliant blip//setup. good for you. 5/5

~ stingdingsbook   Got on your journal today for the first time. I am glad to hear about your trip and wish you all the best in this adventure. I have a few friends who have embarked on similar adventures and who, after years now, still feel there is so much to do they can't stop there. I suspect you are on the edge of something very important to you and to many others, even more important than you and I might be able to imagine right now.

GOOD LUCK!!!

~ lorca   sounds like such an amazing trip! I hope you have a chance to take some photos while in india. It's rich with color and culture that I know all of us in the west will find very interesting. all the best for your trip and be safe!

~ bluesheep   C U soon, xxx

~ silverstar   Have a good journey - and a wonderful time in India. Will be watching for blips ...... Lovely image - I love the little buttons with letters on.

~ shedmonkey   Have a great adventure!!!

~ benek   Oh wow!! Very good. I am glad you do this. It is good to put our hands to work for other peoples, not just send money - though that's useful too. And it's not just that they need the help with the physical part, is it. It's all about caring and sharing and getting to know them, and them - us, etc. Building a community, one block (person) at a time. All the best! Safe travels.

~ lrw   Hi/Bye! Wow, that's soo cool! Take good care.
Bon voyage!

~ mr_chips   enjoy your trip!
make sure to blip! ; )

~ shaun22   This time tomorrow, you will be in the air! You are in for quite the experience. If you see anything to do with Sir John Lawrence or Sir Henry Lawrence, or Honoriah Lawrence, please take a photo for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Montgomery_Lawrence

This guy was married to my gr-great aunt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lawrence,_1st_Baron_Lawrence

~ RamblingsRoom   TTFN. This is the trip of a lifetime that you have been waiting for all this time. Enjoy, take care and come back safely.

Can't wait to hear all about it.

Bon voyage.

~ Barking   Sounds like a brilliant trip. Hope you have a great time.

I also hope you'll be taking plenty of pictures for uploading on your return.

~ richie_rollover   have a great time - India is a brilliant country with fantastic people. The cause is commendable.

~ dailypost   Have a great journey. Sounds like a win-win all around. I hope you have reliable net access to keep us posted.

~ scintilla   Good luck and have a great trip. Keep on blipping and back blip when you are back. Keep safe.

~ Canterbury   have a great trip and do hard work, it's very honorable what you do, thank you.
keep us posted when you can.
Heko

~ Okeh   best wishes for the trip and cherish the experience.... hope you can backblip if you don't have access

~ Croz   Have a wondefrul time, and enjoy your stay, see you soon.

~ traceyflowerpot   Bon voyage, make the most of this experience, look forward to seeing some blips on your return

~ Jaxter46   Nice shot set up.

What a wonderful adventure you are setting out on. Good for you.

Take good care, have fun and learn about the world.

Thanks for all the nice views.

~ sassy   Good luck, sounds a worthy thing to be envolved in

~ Bisk   Good luck! sounds like an amazing trip alright.

~ tigraki   I'm back home! I've been working like crazy sorting through 2,488 photos! I shot every day, and I'll be posting when I can! Keep tuned in!

~ Escaping_Erebus   Just a quick word to say thanks for commenting on my 200th, it was appreciated very much.

Come back soon.

~ brickmaker   Hey you're back! Oh my gosh that's a lotta photos! I can't wait for your next blip.

~ BreathsAlligned   I know, I've been working at it lately, but life has grabbed at me full swing since I've been back. I've managed to keep taking pictures every day though!

The hardest thing about going through my photos now for blip is that I forgot to change the time when I was in India! So I'm having to think out the time conversion in my head to make sure it's the right day. :oS

~ Escaping_Erebus   I can't wait to see your images (one day!!!) :))

~ photofiend   Looking forward to seeing them too

~ Bisk   I'm so sorry to everyone who has been waiting on the pictures. It's been so long since I've posted, and I feel terrible about it.

If I had the dates right, I would have posted right away. I got so busy, and I was taking pictures every day still. But because the images from the trip were all mixed up date wise, I was putting off the large chore of posting them and all of the other photos I had taken since. That large chore grew with every day as more and more pictures went onto my camera.

Then, just the other day, I accidentally formatted one of my cards. I hadn't transferred the blips over, and about 25 days were lost right there.

I was so into blip, and I still would be. But I just feel like back blipping this far would be too much for me right now. So I've stopped taking a picture every day for a while. I may continue in the future when my life smooths into a steady rhythm.

Now, for all of you who still want to see some of India, all is not lost!!

I have here a youtube of some videos I compiled. Here is a link to the first one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CluP9wuScFw

You can find the rest under my user name there or in the side bar that shows related videos. I hope you enjoy, and I shall return someday, to start my blips again.

~ Escaping_Erebus   2008-05-12

Oh! I have been waiting for your return! I am glad you are back, but I had no idea you put this comment on here - could have been months ago :(. How heart breaking it must have been for you to loose those pictures :( I would have cried, I think!

hey - don't wait to be able to put all your pictures online! You don't have to do them all in order. Just get started today with today's pictures. One day, maybe, you might back blip some from your trip. You don't have to give up blip just because you have an overwhelming job to get the dates right on old pics. We'd love to see you back in action again.

One last thing - and you probably already know this, but depending on the software you use to manage your pictures you should be able to select them all and use one command to do a timezone shift on the entire batch and they'll all be fixed in one command! I've done this before (hmm, just about after every trip!).

Oh - one last, last thing :) - I liked your youtube videos :)

~ lrw  

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