Building & Training Centers

Through this new and innovative project HFHT plans to establish Habitat Resource Centres in two impoverished areas of Tajikistan, to function as training centres for unemployed and unskilled population, manufacture alternative and cost-effective products, train the population in earthquake-prone zones on locally affordable and applicable antiseismic construction practices and provide affordable micro-finance housing loans to low-income and earthquake affected families to enable them to repair/reconstruct their homes.

One of the considerable project funding source is CIDA grunt approved for the next 3 years. The project to be launched in the north of the country in the Asht district of Soghd region and in the second year also commence in the south, Kumsangir district.

Through HRC 18 courses 216 individuals annually will gain vocational skills and HIV/AIDS awareness.

In both target areas more than 50 individuals will be employed by the center. Within 6 years, the housing conditions for 466 earthquake-affected families in Kumsangir will be improved as they reconstruct/ complete their damaged and half-built houses being empowered by the center with necessary skills and construction materials produced.

Local production of cost-effective building materials will support families in need by providing access to comparatively cheaper building materials. It is envisaged that building materials produced in an HRC will cost around 20% less than the current market prices. HFHT will work further to determine exactly which products to produce that will facilitate best training opportunities, reduce construction cost by the greatest amount, and be most needed product on the local market.