Latest update January 5th, 2025 2:26 AM
60 Food For The Poor homes in West Berbice
Food For The Poor is working to build 60 homes for poor families in the West Berbice area.
A number of West Berbice residents are soon to benefit from low cost housing, compliments of Food For The Poor (FFTP) Guyana Incorporated.
With over 900 applications on the list within Region Five, Food for The Poor has already embarked on a housing project in the Union-Trafalgar area on the West Coast of Berbice, which will see some sixty families benefitting from the project as the organization plans to construct sixty (60) two-bedroom houses for distribution.
The houses will each be painted, and would be fitted with toilet and bath, as well as a water tank before they are handed over to the different families.
The new Food For The Poor Housing Development would be occupying a parcel of state land at Union – Number Thirty South, which was under the purview of the Mahaica Mahaicony Abary Agriculture Development Authority, MMA/ADA, but was handed over to the Community Development Council, which in turn decided to make the land available for the much needed housing development.
With the land having been made available by the relevant authorities, works are currently in progress to survey the land and to design the scheme. The next phase will see the houses being constructed
According to Field Officer, Mr. Colin Reynolds, construction of the houses is likely to begin in another four to five weeks. The project should be completed within approximately five months, and it would be up to the utility companies, GPL and GWI to get electricity and water to the consumers.
The development in the Union – Trafalgar area would be the second of its kind to be embarked upon by Food for the Poor on the West Coast of Berbice, as a similar project, The New Hope Housing Project, was executed in 2016 aback of Onderneeming, commonly called Fort Wellington, which is now home for forty-three families.
The land was acquired from the Hopetown Multipurpose Co-op Society, and funding for the project was provided by an American businessman to mark the forty-third anniversary of his marriage. Each home owner was given time in which to pay towards the purchase of the land on which the house is constructed, and within a certain time would have been issued title for the property.
One of the policies of Food for the Poor is that the family must have access to land before the organization can assist, and the houses are of standard size and design. Since the organization has over nine hundred applications on record, they will have to do need assessment whereby, they would be able to identify the families whose needs would be greater, and such families would be given preference over the others.
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