June 18, 2009

Families help more families


The families from the “Post flood repairing” project that took place in May 2007 in Santa Fe, paid an additional donation with each monthly installment which entered a fund that allowed HPHA to help a family in extreme need, that was affected by the floodings, with an incremental improvement. Thanks to them, the Ponce de León-Orduña family could get started, with the help of local volunteers, with the construction that will improve their house.

The Ponce de León-Orduña family lives in very humble conditions in a shack made out of precarious material. The head of the family suffers from a physical disability and if it weren’t for the help from the other Habitat families, they wouldn’t have been able to have the opportunity of improving their house because their income is not high enough to access a credit from HPHA.

Therefore, once again solidarity showed powerful results. The families from the “Post flood repairing” project built “More than houses”: with their effort and payment of monthly installments they have achieved a housing solution for themselves, for the families that will come later and for one more family. And they have sent a message of hope to the rest of society…

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