Safe, secure housing transforms lives.
Rural families typically live in a makeshift shelter comprised of plastic, scrap metal, sticks, adobe and wood. Nearly all of them have a dirt floor. Access to clean water, electricity and latrines are scarce. Overcrowding is normal, with two or three families in each house.
Rainbow Network works with communities to build simple, cinderblock homes with concrete floors. Each home has clean water, a latrine and, eventually, electricity. They have locking doors to ensure safety and a yard to grow a garden or raise animals. These homes have generational impact for families!
Over 1,500 houses have been built through Rainbow Network’s housing program.
Families now have a safe space to call their own, often for the first time in their life.
Housing project participants take an active role in accomplishing the project by assisting with construction.
Participants make contributions back to Rainbow Network to help cover the cost of materials. Once these contributions are complete, the family receives documentation to put the house in their own name!
At the completion of each project, we hold a joyful housing dedication ceremony, where families receive the keys to their new home!
