GOAL's Uganda Housing Project
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GOAL builds 1,000 houses for poor in Uganda
Four-room home for
vulnerable families
costs just €4,500
GOAL recently completed the construction
of its 1,000th home for vulnerable families in Southern Uganda.
Since it was established three years ago, GOAL's housing support
programme has renovated or built new homes for thousands of orphans
and families who have been affected by HIV or AIDS in the east African
country.
Prior to taking ownership of their new brick-built homes, families
had been living in makeshift shacks, grass houses and leaking mud
huts. With no access to latrines or clean water, poor health and
disease was rife.
Re-housed families are now living in multi-room houses, which provide
shelter, warmth, water and sanitation facilities. New home owners
are given household goods, including stoves, mattresses and blankets.
Mosquito nets are also supplied to help prevent malaria infection.
New four-roomed houses cost just €4,500 to build, while rehabilitation
work and some of the smaller homes cost even less. GOAL CEO John
O’Shea is encouraging Irish businesses, groups and people
to fundraise or club together to buy a house for a needy family.
"This programme has been an extraordinary success but we need
the help of the Irish people now more than ever to help us reach
our target of 1,500 houses. There are many more families living
in desperate conditions that urgently require our assistance,"
said Mr. O'Shea.
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