By Nancy Wynne | co-founder and treasurer
Hello from Guatemala Housing Alliance.
As of today and with generous support of donors we have laid 139 floors (in addition to those in the full homes we build). More and more lately, the floor builds have been in tandem with roof restructuring. Roofs in Guatemala are generally made of corrugated metal. Traditionally they had been of tile, but that has proven to be too dangerous in this highly seismic area. Metal has a limited lifespan and replacing a roof is often outside the finances of a family. Thus, many of the floors we have replaced with cement had often been mud due to infiltrating rain.
As with the floors, a recipient of a new roof pays 25% of the cost, with the donors to GHA covering the rest. All overhead is paid by the GHA's founding family, freeing all other contributions to be applied directly to one of our projects: building (houses, floors and roofs) and education.
We thank our donors for their support.
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