Our Housing Project, the main activity of KCP’s Community Service Program, took place this past Saturday, April 6th! Our students, staff members, and some parents visited one of the rural areas of Puerto Colombia to construct 8 homes for vulnerable families, with the help of Fundación Catalina Muñóz and the Alcaldía de Puerto Colombia authorities. This was an amazing learning experience for the more than 150 volunteers who built these houses, shoulder to shoulder with the new proud owners to help them forge the next steps of their future!
KCP interviewed some of the families who benefited from this project and each one was deeply moved by the idea of having a brand new home, upon which they can build to realize their dreams. These families only had words of gratitude and appreciation. Students also expressed how lucky they felt for having the chance to live this experience and said they were deeply moved by the precarious living conditions of some of these families.
This was the first year that KCP worked along with Fundación Catalina Muñóz in this wonderful project, that has been providing hundreds of families around Colombia for more than 10 years with dignified homes that have, both, concrete walls and floor and aluminum windows and doors to withstand the hardships of weather and time.
“This activity is a part of our Character Counts! And Community Service Program. We are doing this to help others so students understand that the values you have are the values you have to apply in life”, said Ms. Horbal, the School’s Director during the activity.
“For us, I have to say, this is an amazing opportunity. The thankfulness of the families is amazing and for us as a learning institution, this is an opportunity to see another side of life and how it is for the majority of people around the world. It is a chance for our students to develop compassion and character,” added Joseph Levno, KCP’s Secondary Principal.
Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers and to everyone who made this dream possible! GO TIGERS!