The building of one home

This is not a very good picture for a very good tale: This house belongs to a lady who lost her home during the flooding, hers was one of the few that did not withstand the winds and was completely destroyed. When we visited back in 2009 she was living under plastic sheeting and HOM could do nothing to help her, because the government wouldn't give permission to rebuild her home. Shortly before the fire happened that permission was granted, when Joey Escoto went to buy materials for the project there weren't enough for him to buy, so he put the building work off, that evening the fire struck. Joey would have bought all of the supplies and left them at the lady's home if he had been able to buy them and they would have been destroyed.

Here is the new home HOM built for her after the fire. It doesn't look like much by western standards, but I am sure it beats live under a plastic sheet: