Updates in The Paso Puente Community

Homes from the Heart has partnered with Food for the Poor in El Salvador on a new community project. The Paso Puente Community faces poverty, as well as flooding due to homes made from metal sheets. The community consists of 26 families (200 people total) in need of safe and secure housing. Food for the Poor will fund the construction of 13 homes and has asked Homes from the Heart to fund the remaining 13.

The Minister of Housing, Michelle Sol visited Paso Puente recently to inspect the first round of homes which are almost finished and give out the second deposit for the first 15 homes and the first deposit for the second 15 homes. Dennis Salinas from Reconstruction of Social Fabric Ministry came out with her. She also promised to pave the main road. A community member gave a heart-wrenching testimony of growing up in a shack and her young children getting wet from the rain in the home.Materials are arriving soon to begin building the next 15 homes.

If you would like to donate to the project, visit our “Donate” page and note that you would like your funds to go towards “La Aurora Project”.

Homes 133 & 134 in Haiti

Home 133: Sisters Yolanda and Maria have been living together in the tent in the first image since after the earthquake. The tent also houses their children, including an infant of six months, a four-year-old child, and an eight-year-old child. The fathers went to the Dominican Republic to seek work. The tent was not secure and allowed rain to seep in. Now, they will stay in a dry, safe home.

Home 134: Mireille Jerome, her mother, and four-year-old daughter were all living in a house with no windows made of metal sheets donated by the church. Our team went inside to take pictures, but quickly left due to extreme heat. Now, they have a spacious home with five windows and are able to stay inside, even in the middle of the day.