General Housing Program

Our housing initiative is aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 11, which is aimed at ensuring access for all to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic services.

Over the year, FFTP under the General Housing Program constructed ninety-two homes for families, with an average of six persons per family; a total of 552 persons were provided with safe, adequate shelter and easy access to modern sanitary facilities and clean water. Each home was partially furnished with beds (2), tabletop gas stove (1), chairs (4 metal folding) table (1). Families without access to the national electricity grid received solar panel systems which are designed to power three bulbs and charge cell phones.
FFTP houses have improved with the inclusion of the exterior painted using oil paint and the shedding of one of the two stairs.

Houses were constructed in Regions 2, 5 and 6. An additional 10 houses were constructed in Region 4; 8 at Waiakabra, Soesdyke Linden Highway and 2 at Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara under the Hope is Rising Project.

One of the beneficiaries, Neil Eleixie Archer, 43, a single father of three boys, of Lot 800 Glasgow New Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice, broke into tears while expressing his gratitude towards FFTP.
He said, “Today is a happy day for the children, they are happy and I would like to say thanks to Food for the Poor for what they have done for my children.”