MY ROOF

Description:

This is a Centro Cultural Guanín, Inc., project, designed and directed toward all families of scarce resources without a roof to keep out the rain, sun, and night dew.

The inspiration for this project was born in feelings that always arise when I think about my past. I lived with my parents and five brothers and sisters in a two-room house that, when it rained, was like camping outside.

Today, through Guanín, we'd like to build roofs for all those children of the world who have no one else in the world to help them. Home is where the heart is.

The project MY ROOF was begun in 2001, in the community of Higuamo I, San Pedro de Macorís Province, with a group of students from the University of Vandervilt, Tennessee, U.S.A. We constructed a school there, with a capacity for 200 students, and repaired three houses, including replacing their roofs and planting trees around them to provide shade, among other improvements. We have also worked in the sectors of the country called Blanco, Jarabacoa, and Jimaní in 2004, in La Mata de Cotui, Sánchez Ramírez Province, in 2006, internationally in Puerto Pincipe, Haiti, in 2010, and now in La Piedra (Toro de Baní) , Municipality of Guerra, in Santo Domingo Province, in 2011.

Mission:

To provide a roof for God's children, no matter what their color, race, religion, or nationality. Our theme is: We are all children of God, with the the right to life, love, education, health, and a roof over our heads. Financing: The project MY ROOF is being financed by the company SAS (Student Services), which donated 70%, and the rest by friends and members of theGuanín foundation, a Dominican non-profit NGO.

This is a emergency call for help.

We need to raise the equivalent of US$2,000 to make a safe home for a Dominican-Haitian family who are living in a very precarious condition. Five people, three adolescents and two adults, live there. One of those adults is Señora Silvania, 49 years old, who has a contagious disease. They live, as previously mentioned, in a precarious condition, in a so-called house with a dirt floor, whose roof is covered with old pieces of rusty, full-of-holes corrugated tin (called "zinc" here), the multiple holes stuffed with plastic.

Of course, no matter how much plastic they stuff in the holes, when it rains, it's still like camping outside, for the water finds a way in. We repeat, we are all children of God with the same rights to life, education, health, love, and a roof over our heads that keeps us safe and dry. This family, however, has not had the luck of enjoying these rights.

Guanin, Inc., has already provided the medical treatment to begin curing Señora Silvania of her illness and is also making sure that all members of the family have enough to eat every day, but we need your help to repair her house, to make it safe, dry, and healthy for her and her family.

We need:
Wood (2x4s and 1x4s)
3" zinc nails
Sheets of zinc for the roof
Cement and color tint for the floors
Sand for mixing with the cement for the floor
This is our phone number: 1-829-875-4599 bra de arboles, etc.

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