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Woman gets new K9,000 house
By PETER MIVA
A 33-YEAR-old woman from Henganofi, Eastern Highlands, is the proud
owner of a brand new three-bedroom house at Budeng, 12-Mile outside Lae
city.
Julianne Terry, who works as a sales representative with the Ela Motors
Lae branch, received the keys to the house from the Habitat for Humanity
PNG’s National Board chairman Benson Nablu, who officially opened the
house during its dedication ceremony on Sunday.
Ms Terry is one of 40 home-owners from the Budeng community under the
Habitat for Humanity PNG Morobe sub-affiliate housing project.
The house costs K9,000, with Ms Terry meeting half of the costs from
fundraising activities and assistance from members of her building
community group and Habitat for Humanity PNG meeting the other half.
Ms Terry’s house is only the third in the Budeng community to be
officially handed over to owners with two more houses to be dedicated
and 35 more yet to be built.
She said the house was built within six months and that it was a dream
come true for her after being evicted from the Salvation Army hostel in
2004.
Ms Terry said it was her dream to own a house and urged other young
women to take up the challenge to build their own houses.
She said most public servants and private sector employees did not have
decent homes and live in single rooms in settlements that were being
rented for K80 to K90 per fortnight.
Ms Terry told a huge turn-out of members of the nearby communities and
invited guests at the ceremony that she was determined to have a home of
her own after her eviction and her dreams have now come to fruition
through dedication, perseverance and commitment.
She told the crowd that dreams and visions were worthless if they were
not put into action.
Ms Terry thanked the Habitat for Humanity PNG housing ministry for
making her dreams become a reality.
But she said it was not the end, as she had to continue to help raise
funds to help build houses for the other 35 members in the Budeng
building project besides paying back her mortgage to Habitat for
Humanity PNG.
 
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