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Habitat has been
able to positively affect demonstrates the indomitable spirit of man, that
always finds a way to prosper in spite of adverse conditions
.Habitat for Humanity enables the desire to perform good works by providing
the opportunity to interact with people who simply need a hand up
so that they can become productive members of society.
LOKHAI
GETS HER HOME
LOKHAI
SINGH is a home maker; she is married with one SOl) and currently
resides in Penal. For s everal
years she shared a single dwelling unit with other relatives and
with her growing family it was challenging to say the least. She
approached Habitat for Humanity® and in them found a lifelong
partner with whom she could build a place for her to nurture her
family and construct a new life.
HOMES Sweet HOMES
H.O.M.E.S.
SWEET H.O.M.E.S. John
Howard Payne may not be alive today, but his famous poem could not
have been more appropriate than in referring to the joint venture
project between Habitat for Humanity® Trinidad & Tobago and
Phoenix Park Gas Processors Limited.
Helping
Our Most Exposed Siblings, (H.O.M.E.S.),
is funded by grant proceeds from PPGPL and administered by HFHTT.
The project entails the construction of twenty houses to assist
deserving families in upgrading their present structures to change
the face of the communities and build lives.
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Home
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gives light even in the darkest hour.
PARBATIE RAMTAHAL lived
at her last address for twenty-three years. Her husband
passed away a few years ago, leaving the her and her three
children in partially completed wooden /concrete structure.
The house was a three bed-room tenement that was completely
unacceptable for the Young family, but as much as Ramtahal fought
to complete her home while picking up the pieces pf her broken life, she
was not able to improve her status given the fact that she was a
self-employed person. Ramtahal approached Humanity Humanity@
Trinidad and and Tobago, as a last hope, and together with the
National Gas of TT Limited, was able to construct a three bed-room, one
bathroom home Kitchen and living space for the family. It as
arduous effort, since Habitat for Humanity reduces the cost
of homes by depending on the unskilled labour portion of the
project being provided substantively by the family members and
kind hearted volunteers.
Ramtahal and her family can now start to rebuild their
emotional lives since Habitat for Humanity has ensured that she
and her children now live in more comfortable surroundings, secure
in the knowledge that she can rely on her extended Habitat family
for assistance.
As tragic as the circumstances ere for the Ramtahal family
their story, like so many of the 600 individuals that |
The HEERALAL family, comprising two
parents and their four children ranging in ages from 21 to 12 years,
is sustained , primarily, on the income of Indrajit Heeralal with a
little assistance from his daughter, who only recently acquired
employment at a small hardware supply outlet.
The family has occupied the land on which they presently reside, for
the past 20 years in a leaking l0 x 20 ft wooden structure. There is
no indoor sanitary infrastructure and they were unable to dedicate
any significant financial resources from their modest income to a
new home, due to frequent health challenges from all members
of the family.
They were referred to Habitat For Humanity Trinidad and Tobago
and the organization was able to construct a three
bedroom, one bathroom home Kitchen and living space covering 651 sq
ft with a grant extended under the HOMES project which is a
housing development imitative from Phoenix Park Gas Processors
Limited. The building work was blessed with enthusiastic volunteer, some
of which included a group of 24 young people and three of
their high school professors from North Carolina who were visiting
Trinidad for their summer vacation.
The' organization was also able to have the home painted with pare
donated by Arkall Trading and labour provided by the staff of PPGPL
and a visiting Canadian Navy Vessel- HMCS Fredericton.
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