Single Mother of Four Receives New Home Courtesy Heritage Bank and Hand in Hand Ministries
One Belize City family is heading into the Christmas season inside a brand new home. Earlier this year, Angela Jones and her family experienced misfortune after their home on North Creek collapsed. Fortunately for Jones and her family, Heritage Bank Limited selected them to receive a brand new home. As a part of the Heritage Bank’s corporate social responsibility, they build and donate a home to a needy family annually. In partnership with Hand in Hand Ministry, Heritage Bank employees take time away from the office to assist with the construction process. Today, the single mother, and her four children, received the keys to their new home.
Steven Duncan
Steven Duncan, Managing Director, Heritage Bank
“This is the seventeenth home we are building in conjunction with the Hand in Hand Ministries. We don’t know how to builds houses. I need to be clear on that. Hand in Hand Ministries is really the people with the knowhow. They take the lead on that. We really just support and sponsor you know.”
Reporter
“How this family was selected?”
Steven Duncan
“This is annual for us and the Hand in Hand Ministries do the interview and ground work to ensure that it is a family in ended and in this particular case I am sure you would remember the news item that this family’s house dropped off the stilts and fell down. The mother is someone that does some work with us and so the family is known to us and Hand in Hand Ministries did their usual screening and thought that we could assist so we did.”
Angela Jones
Angela Jones, Home Recipient
“The eighteenth of June 2022 my house hand crumble and it took me six months but I thank God that today I can proudly say that I can be more comfortable with my family and a blessed Christmas for me and them will share together.”
Allyah Jones
Allyah Jones, Home Recipient
“It is a great opportunity for me because like our house fell and it was hard for me to catch up with all that was happening. I will much more focus now because I will be more comfortable.”
Heritage Bank Employee
Heritage Bank Employee
“I look forward to; I even mek the bway deh look bad and I mix the cement, I mix the cement. I do everything and the next day I cramp up but I still come help.”
