Year 4, Volume 1: Santa Fe: Responding to needs

Responding to needs

The Santa Fe office has designed and is implementing the Let us Build Project in the suburb of Recreo.

The objective of this Project is to provide an opportunity for at least 50 families who live in precarious conditions, have low incomes and do not legally own their own land to have access to a house with land included within the next two years.

The houses for this project will be built with pre-molded cement panels that are bolted together designed to meet the needs of the individual families.

Community Involvement: Developing Communities

The Let us Build Project consists of houses built together on a large lot for a minimum of four families. Because of this innovation in building method in western Recreo, HFHA has the possibility of effecting the urbanization of this area. In this way HFHA is able to work together with the municipal government to provide for recreational areas, green areas, sidewalks, pavement and basic public services like electricity and water.

Community Development Workshops serve as incentive to individuals empowering them to improve the quality of their life over a short, medium and long period of time. Besides the workshops that include Financial Literacy, Legal Literacy and Little Bricks there are plans to offer another workshop called Community Involvement.

At the same time the local Santa Fe Office will be offering the following workshops:

- Organic Vegetable Gardens

- Family Nutrition

- House maintenance

- Sustainability of the house

- The energy efficient home

The objective is to reach at least 30 families who are not yet HFHA beneficiaries for each workshop.

The first six families for this project have been selected and we hope they will be able to move into their new houses in three months. We are looking forward to the success of the Let us Build Project.

Mariano Moreno

Local Coordinator

Santa Fe Office – HFHA