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LIBANO HOUSING PROJECT UPDATE

Text Box: We are currently finishing up the water, sewer, and electricity installations as well as the necessary retaining walls in order to build the 30 homes. The next phase is to begin building the foundations for the homes which will cost about $25,000. The families that will be receiving these homes have been doing all of the manual labor in moving dirt, rocks and sand in order to build the retaining walls. They have also been selling raffle tickets, picking coffee and donating money in order to help with the cost of putting in the house foundations. They have raised around $5000 themselves which is quite an accomplishment for people who have very little income. This project has been an uphill battle but will be quite an accomplishment when it is finished. These families will move from squalor shacks into a very modest yet a greatly improved living situation. Government Engineers will be coming in February to inspect the installations and then in March the Colombian Government Grant people will be coming to inspect the work to date.
Father Brian Cooper, CSV

Text Box: We are currently finishing up the water, sewer, and electricity installations as well as the necessary retaining walls in order to build the 30 homes. The next phase is to begin building the foundations for the homes which will cost about $25,000. The families that will be receiving these homes have been doing all of the manual labor in moving dirt, rocks and sand in order to build the retaining walls. They have also been selling raffle tickets, picking coffee and donating money in order to help with the cost of putting in the house foundations. They have raised around $5000 themselves which is quite an accomplishment for people who have very little income. This project has been an uphill battle but will be quite an accomplishment when it is finished. These families will move from squalor shacks into a very modest yet a greatly improved living situation. Government Engineers will be coming in February to inspect the installations and then in March the Colombian Government Grant people will be coming to inspect the work to date.
Father Brian Cooper, CSV

Shown upper left-Building Retaining Wall with Manual labor

Shown upper right-The Electric Light Posts are in place.

Shown left- Putting in the sewer lines

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