Santo Domingo (May 2023)-After a resounding success in its first edition, the Women Build initiative held its second installment in May 2023 with a construction day where only women participated. Volunteers build floors to play in the 2nd edition of Women Build Dominican Republic.
The initiative seeks to impact the lives of women who need to live in decent housing with their families. Women Build provides the opportunity for volunteers to take a proactive step to serve their communities and build strength, stability and self-sufficiency together.
-This time volunteers from different professional roles joined to build for three families. -They changed dirt floors for polished concrete floors, adding impact to the regional initiative 100 thousand floors to play on.
The second edition had the participation of volunteers from the allied company IMCA, the volunteers Sarah Villanueva, Sonia Read, Clara Reid de Frankenberg, Tamara Frankenberg, among others. In addition, the construction brigade where three houses were intervened was attended by the communicators Paloma Almonte and Lis Arias, together they built and changed the dirt floors and in poor condition for polished concrete floors of the houses of Carmen, Joselin and Nicolás.
“We are grateful to all the volunteers who have said present and have joined this cause that transforms lives, it has been a great constructive day, a special day that we have lived, we feel happy to continue adding impact to the regional initiative of 100 a thousand floors to play by Habitat for Humanity and FICEM; and of all those who have supported our organization for so many years, we continue to move forward and involve women, volunteers, companies and individuals so that more families are part of our vision that each person can have a decent place to live. Women have the necessary capacity and determination to build houses, so that women and their families can have a decent place to live”, said Cesarina Fabián, national director of Habitat Dominicana.
All the volunteers built to support Carmen, Joselin, Nicolás and to celebrate together with them that they will have better habitability and better conditions to live with their children.
The owners thanked the organization and expressed their excitement at having a cement floor, because now their day-to-day development, carrying out their domestic chores and living with their families will be different.
With the construction of polished concrete floors, the lives of these families have been positively impacted, allowing them to have a better quality of life, health and hygiene in their homes.
Women Build or women’s construction brigade, was held on Wednesday, May 31, in the Rancho Arriba community, in Nigua, San Cristóbal province, in its second edition in.
In the country, Habitat Dominicana intends that every year the construction brigade be carried out where only women volunteers participate.
About Women Build
Since 1991, Habitat for Humanity Women Build volunteers have come together to build stronger, safer communities globally. With this brigade, the opportunity is provided for women to take a proactive step to serve their communities and build strength, stability and self-sufficiency together.
Around the world, women from the United States, India, Mexico, Paraguay and Canada have participated, in its second edition the Dominican Republic.
Women helping women send a powerful and positive message.
About Habitat for Humanity Dominican Republic
Habitat for Humanity is a global, non-profit, non-governmental organization that works to provide everyone with a decent place to live through programs focused on housing microfinance, minimizing risk, and increasing disaster response.
Habitat for Humanity Dominican Republic empowers families to create strength, stability and self-sufficiency through housing. Since the beginning of its work in 1986, the organization has served more than 201,640 thousand people, carrying out around 40,328 thousand housing solutions.
We empower with housing.
