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But Help Is Coming
posted (October 28, 2010)
So, yes, relief is going out….but as you saw in that story, a critical need continues to be housing…. The Ministry of Works is responsible dealing directly with the residents of the city whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Richard. Contractors were hired to start work immediately, and today as a testament to that statement, we saw a six man team on Faber's Road repairing one of those badly damaged houses:

Devon Myers, Local Contractor
"He assign us to do some of these assessment that the weather really affect in the Belize so the immediate effect to any house roof or wall that the weather blow apart we are here to fix back. But today we will try to finish the roof and make sure this is complete so that the lady could have her life back to normal. If you notice we tore down all the rest of hardboard due to the water damage and stuff, even termites we found in the roof so hopefully we try finish everything today. Hopefully we work Saturday and Sunday, no rest for us right now it is all day working from sunrise to sundown. We already have another job that we are looking on so as soon as we finish this we will go to the other job. We just want to get back the city on top of things because people need their house."

Andrea Polanco
"You guys starting working on the house depending on how badly damage they are?"

Devon Myers, Local Contractor
"Yes ma'am and this was one of the first due to the roof damage. There were big holes that you could have seen the sun shining through this roof. Hopefully when you come back no sun will be burning us anymore and rain will not wet anymore in this area. The number priority is the roof then the interior afterwards, then the verandah; the verandah comes under roof too because it is where they stay to breeze out and relax. after we finish with the roof we will get to the interior work inside and that is pretty much in 1 day too so the roof will be completed today and hopefully tomorrow the interior with the hardboard complete. My workmen and I will make sure that we do the right thing to do the job the right way because we are not just building but we want to do it the right way so the people could see the quality of what they are getting. We are not just working for work sake, we are giving people the best quality of job that we could too."

For the city residents who will be unable to stay in their homes while it's being repaired or are at this time displaced because they lost their homes, a sum of three hundred dollars will be given per month to help them to get a place to stay. If you need further information on this you can visit the office at the corner of Kut and Euphrates Avenues or call 2070459.

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