FOUR HOUSEHOLDS ALREADY MOVED IN TO THEIR NEW HOUSING UNITS

(with Daisy Ambos at her new house)

MMVHAI, Subangdaku, Mandaue City - On September 30, 2011 the construction of 20 CLIFF incremental housing units has been fully completed. It took 10 months for first batch of 20 MMVHAI community members to build their dream houses.   At present, four households already transferred to their new housing units following the heavy rainfall last October 8, 2011.

The four household includes Mr. and Mrs. Fermin Ambos, Mr. and Mrs. Diosdado Reyes, Mr. and Mrs. Nestor Argallon and Mr. and Mrs. Carlito Secio each has 2 children.

(Taken at the old house of Mr. & Mrs. Diosdado Reyes) 

(This is now the new house of Mr. & Mrs. Diosdado Reyes)

According to Mrs. Daisy Ambos, the housing project made possible through the community-led initiatives.  First and foremost, the savings program of Homeless People’s Federation Philippines empowered them as a community and through the technical help of Philippine Action for Community-led Shelter Initiatives, Inc. their dream houses has come to reality.  Moreover, through their savings they acquired a loan from Community-led Infrastructure Finance Facility (CLIFF) to facilitate for the incremental housing constructions of first 20 units commence last November 2010.  Other contributing factors for the success include sweat equity, “bayanihan”, labor equity, savings and active in all community activities and meetings.

Mr. Diosdado Reyes added that they are also thankful to the city administration particularly to City Mayor Jonas Cortes for his full support to the community initiatives. 

Following the completion of the first 20 units, the community already screen and approved another 30 housing applicants for the second batch of MMVHAI CLIFF housing project. 

(At the second floor of Ms. Daisy Ambos' unit)