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After months of deploying field construction teams in five indigenous communities of the Atlantic North Autonomous Region (RAAN) near Bilwi, CO2 Bambu is proud to announce that the process of handing over the homes to beneficiaries has been completed.
At the height of the program, we had over 100 workers in these communities, under the leadership of civil engineer Jefferson Gomez. This was without a doubt a “hardship assignment” for Jefferson, as life in these communities had all the ingredients of an adventure novel. Reading the “bitacora” or the narrative by the lead Civil Engineer of day to day events brings together natural challenges such as:
torrential rains when no work could be done for days, man-made crises such as when a Miskito young man killed a neighbor by machete a few houses down from where our team slept at night, and of course the innumerable cases of cars and trucks breaking down on a road system that requires the vigilance of a fighter pilot to avoid large pot-holes for most of the 5 hours between our factory and the job sites.
As always, our construction team was a national mix of workers from the beneficiary communities as well as workers we trained through prior programs from Rosita, Granada, Managua, Bilwi and Muelle de los Buyes. The program solidified CO2 Bambu’s position as a provider of low cost housing for post disaster reconstruction and 60 families that had been rendered homeless by Hurricane Felix in 2007, finally got a chance to restart their lives in new homes funded by the World Bank. The pictures below were taken as the Government of RAAN started to hand over the homes to the members of the communities of Wawaboom, Truslaya, Yulo, KM 43 and KM 51.  |
| The official representative of the Government of RAAN, signing off acceptance of the CO2 Bambu house. |
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| The Miskito community of Truslaya comes together to receive their new homes |
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| This was a “turnkey” project and it doesn’t get more real than this. As this mother of 5 children turns the key to open the door, her children will have a place to sleep where the roof doesn’t leak.Add caption |
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| Neighbors stop by to see the new homes |
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| The elder of this village monitors the process of designating of homes to families in his community. |
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| No bed yet in this house,but the hammock is in place for a first night in the new home. |
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| The elder of the village, gets a new bamboo house for his family as well. |
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| AddThose who cannot read and write signed off the receipt of their new homes with a fingerprint. caption |
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| Jefferson Gomez, Civil Engineer in charge of this project, hands over his “baby” to a new resident. |
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| All smiles – Hurricane Felix rendered these people homeless. These eco-refugees had to wait 5 years for a new home, before a World Bank program could become a reality. |
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| The process of handing over new homes is repeated in five communities. |
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| Add cThe billboard goes in the ground, the very last construction moment for this programaption |
Fabulous..What an achievement !!!! These people can look ahead now that they have a roof over their head…BRAVO.