A Place to Live, Many Smiles to Give
Dhoba Bhuyan today gossips with his friends while sipping tea under an electric fan in his concrete house. He looks care free and happy. But things were not always the same. Until a year ago, four mud walls broken in several places was what Dhoba knew as his home. A few bales of hay and some plastic sheets served as the roof.
IEA noticed the pitiable condition of Dhoba and his family and decided to provide him a proper house under its Community Housing Scheme. So IEA started working towards facilitating a concrete house for him and within a few months there stood a beautiful two room house in place of the thatched hut.
“I am thankful to IEA for providing me this house. I could never have saved enough to build such a beautiful house. But through IEA’s support I now have a permanent home,” exclaims a joyous Dhoba. His wife Sabitri says,
“We also helped build this house carrying the building materials and doing the unskilled works. So this house is really close to our hearts.” Dhoba has 2 sons by name Suresh and Rajkumar and 1 daughter by name Rajkumari.
Dhoba’s is just one of the many rural families to which IEA has facilitated the building of a new pukka house. IEA scouts for such needy families who cannot afford to live in habitable conditions due to lack of financial assistance. It then facilitates the building of a permanent house.
IEA believes a community can be healthy if its members live in clean and healthy conditions. It is for this reason that it has schemes like the Community Housing Scheme and Community Sanitary Toilet Building Schemes which have been acclaimed by the community.
