Corazón Tijuana House Build Oct 2014: It’s been a while, but in October of 2014 we visited Tijuana again with the Corazón (www.corazon.org) organization to do another house build. Yes, 40 people can build a house in a day. It’s a simple 16′ x 20′ structure; basically four walls, a loft and a roof, with windows and a door, but no electrical or plumbing. It may not seem like much, but it’s really one of the nicer structures in the area. Everyone worked really hard on this one, and the teenage girls did a great job of painting – a critical task in making the home last a long time.
Corazón House Build
With support from local churches and businesses, Corazón (www.corazon.org) is able to build houses in Tijuana and Tecate in impoverished communities. $7,800 buys all the materials. Corazón provides the work foreman and coordination team (the “blue shirts”). Twenty or 30 people show up from the sponsoring organization, plus 10 or 15 others who just want to help (that’s me), and we build a house in a day.
