Four families in the highlands moved into safe, durable homes this spring — homes built to withstand the rainy season and the years to come. Each one was raised alongside the family who lives in it.
Built together, not handed down
Every home is a partnership. Families help build, neighbors pitch in, and the work becomes a shared accomplishment the whole village celebrates.
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All right, so here we have one of the ways that we support the communities around the churches
and community centers we build. We have a lot of different residents’ homes such as this here
that are built out of either clay or metal sheets that get really rusty and have holes in them.
And so we go around and see which ones are the worst. For instance, this one, if we walk around
this side, if you take a look, we’ve got different holes on the sides. They’re rusted, old, and
have lots of holes in them. As soon as the rainy season comes, all that water, all the rainwater goes
right inside the houses. So what we do is look at how many sheets we need to
replace, buy them, come here, and then do that as well. Just for you guys to see how
poor it is and how difficult it is surviving out here in the jungle,
especially with the low income and poverty levels here. Thank you.
More than four walls
A safe home changes what a family can imagine: children with a dry place to study, parents who can work without worrying about the next storm, a foundation to build a future on.
Your generosity makes the next home possible.
Written by Guatemala Hope for Guatemala Hope.