The community housing programme (4th House) walling work is in progress in East Yimbo location-Chunga Village.

IoT students and staff planned Jecinter’s house (400 sq.ft) with her help. A total of 140 students, who are being taught to be masons, plumbers, electricians, blacksmiths, and carpenters, are engaged in this joint learning experience through hands-on learning.

Jecinter Akinyi Owiti is a 42-year-old widow to the late John Owiti and a mother of two, Charlis Oudia (a form four leaver) and Monicah Auma (A grade 8 dropout). Jecinter slipped into deep poverty after John (a tout) succumbed to COVID-19 in 2019. Since her husband’s death, she has been engaged in the fish monger business and small-scale farming around her homestead to make ends meet. Her house had a lot of cracks on the wall, signs that it could collapse at any time, and that convinced GMCDG to settle on her as the Fourth Community Housing Programme Beneficiary.

This is the fourth house that the IoT students and staff are upgrading after it launched an initial programme for upgrading 30 deserving houses in the coming 3 years.

Please click on the link: https://www.gotmatar.org/enable-technology-students-to-build-houses-for-poorest-rural-families/ to learn more about the Community Housing Programme.

To read the full story about the Third Community Housing Programme Beneficiary and see photos. Click on the link: (https://www.gotmatar.org/third-beneficiary-under-community-housing-programme-iot/ ).

To read the full story about the Second Community Housing Programme Beneficiary and see photos. Click on the link: (https://www.gotmatar.org/community-housing-programme-iot/).

To read the full story about the First Community Housing Programme Beneficiary and see photos. Click on the link: (https://www.gotmatar.org/community-housing-programme/).