Twenty-seven-year-old Trecia Wintz, a mother of six boys aged two months to eight years old, is excited at being able to move into her own home at Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice before Christmas.
The Wintz family was one of ten vulnerable families, which Food for the Poor (FFTP) presented with keys to their two-bedroom houses that cost $780,000 each last Wednesday.
Among those present at the Prison Sports Club, New Amsterdam ceremony, were Public Relations Officer of FFTP Michelle Branker, Doris Roos, head of Child Protection at UNICEF and Alex Foster, chairman of the Central Corentyne FFTP committee and president of the St Francis Community Developers (SFCD).
“Ah feel happy and ah thank Food for the Poor for providing a home for me and my children,” Wintz said.
The woman who had been staying with relatives, said her husband had been remanded to prison for the past nine months for reportedly cultivating marijuana.
Radesh Baburam of Burn Bush Dam, Canje whose wife was killed during a fire that destroyed his home in July said FFTP assisted him to rebuild a few weeks later. He was officially presented with the keys to the home last Wednesday.
He too expressed gratitude to the organization and to “Alex and team for helping me to get through
