The homes we’re building for some of our poorest parents are nearly finished. The latrines should be completed in the next couple of days and hopefully tenants will move in before the end of this month!
The basic accommodation will house around ten small families and enable the families to stay together and the children to remain both at school and at home with their other family members. Otherwise we find that when parents need to move away for various reasons, their child can no longer have a free education, or the child remains and has to stay in our children’s home.
We will rent the homes to the families at a very reasonable cost, which will give CoH a rental income to help reduce our childcare costs. There is also land that we can use for other income-generating or cost-reducing programmes linked to training the school children.
The ten rooms, two pit latrines, and three bathrooms have been built using metal poles as columns, local bricks and mud, cement plastering of walls and floor, and roofs of timber and iron sheets. Each room will be 12 feet by 8 feet in size.
