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Some recipients are ungrateful to Habitat for Humanity

Dec 09, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Habitat for Humanity Guyana is doing an astronomical job to bring families out and away from poverty housing and place them in better conditions thus promoting the creation of communities country wide that would engender a better quality of life for the recipients. Habitat’s contribution to the upgrade of the quality of life in Guyana is nothing short of being sterling for want of a better adjective. This group that is laden with volunteers from students at University to business entities around the country and overseas personnel and churches who make themselves available ever so often to  contribute to the lives of people they don’t even know but have enough love to get involved.
That’s why I think it is a shame for beneficiaries to renege on  their obligation of paying for a house that they have only been asked to make a small per cent in terms of labour and finance in the initial stages, then to pay based on plan that is worked out with the family before occupancy  that is affordable by any standard. I speak because I have been part of the Habitat efforts for many years and from its inception and I know the process thoroughly. I am certain there can be no other non-profit, non-government support entity with the love, care and interest for housing as they have been.
Habitat has no guaranteed financial base, they are supported by donors locally and overseas and of recent are more dependent on local input in greater measure, this is all because recipients have failed in a big way in their obligations thus they are robbing others of the opportunity of better housing and a better life. This can be termed as very selfish since these very recipients have been trained and taught about the workings and functions of Habitat for Humanity Guyana and they are made aware of the revolving fund when they pay up to give another family the blessings of a new home. I know Habitat’s repayment policy is affordable and the best In Guyana and maybe in the world.
The beauty about Habitat is if families can’t for some reason meet their obligations they can go into to the office and the competent staff there would listen and do all that is possible to make the task of repayment easy. No home owner in Guyana can ask for a better than that that is being offered by this God sent organization to serve the people of this nation. I view with shock the names published in the print media of those who have become delinquent and I am sad that some of those individuals might have come to the conclusion that they will not pay for a house that they badly needed and now live in and the domicile they can call their own and home. Most of the delinquents are personally known to me and I was witness to the tears of joy at owning a new home a place they can now call their own, I have heard the promises made not to fail the organization in their obligation to pay, sadly some have forgotten. Maybe it is now time for government to get more intimately involved with the working of Habitat. They have proved their worth in the development of Guyana and Guyanese, the country benefits when Habitat alleviates poverty.
Ivan John

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