The Angelico and Clara Family
“God opened the doors for us,” he says. “The house is a great achievement for us. Here, nobody tells us what to do, and we don’t feel the shame of living in somebody else’s house.”
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“God opened the doors for us,” he says. “The house is a great achievement for us. Here, nobody tells us what to do, and we don’t feel the shame of living in somebody else’s house.”
“Three years ago we got married,” says Marcos. “We had been living with my parents-in-law…I didn’t like that very much.”
During the floods, they would have to take everything out of the house to avoid it getting ruined. Or to dry out. Her new place isn’t like that.
On the side of a hill, next to a peaceful river where the children like to splash each other, there’s a brand new house that a deserving family calls home.
Now, the family has added space, an area to plant their own trees, and a sense of ownership and reward for their labor.
Making payments on a home is a type of investment, and the family’s rent money was going straight up the ladder to the owner of the home. Things had to change.
She says the hardest part of living in her current place is having “reduced space,” sharing the space with her mother. “Privacy isn’t the same.”
Their new house provides not only more space and comfortable living conditions, but a sense of dignity that accompanies it.
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