Second Prize Winner 2024

For the third year, Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity celebrated the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony. Starting Feb. 1, this weeklong campaign provided opportunities for interfaith engagement, dialogue, and volunteerism. A seven-day Interfaith challenge on our website encouraged participants to learn about the UN initiative, explore how the concept of neighborliness translates across faith traditions, and discover how diverse faith groups can put faith into action by advocating to support affordable housing/homeownership in our local community.

Our celebration of WIHW culminated in “Who Is Your Neighbor? An interfaith dialogue focused on neighborliness and partnering with civic officials to address affordable homeownership” on Sunday, Feb. 4,hosted by Pikes Peak Habitat in collaboration with the Pikes Peak Inter Faith Coalition. The event took place at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and approximately 92 people from diverse faith traditions participated.

We hope that the tenets set forth by WIHW of mutual understanding, respect, and love for God and the good of our neighbors continue to unite our diverse faith groups around the need for affordable homeownership, not in spite of our differences, but because of them.