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About
What is UthBuild?
We build youth by building and repairing homes for those in need. In our building, we find new ways to serve. Thus, “Building Youth. Dismantling Poverty.” We want to develop students by serving with them. A person’s character is transformed when they see and serve others who are not afforded the privileges they have been afforded. We build students. We build and repair homes. We help to dismantle poverty. We scholarship students of the families we build for in Mexico through high school in an effort to break systemic generational poverty.
History
Since 2008 UthBuild has built homes for impoverished families in Rocky Point, Mexico. Beginning in 2014, UthBuild has been working to help repair homes in Arizona. In addition to housing we help to provide meals for those in need. We collect furniture and clothing for those in need. Feeding the poor, housing the poor, clothing the poor, educating the poor––all of these things can, and will, transform the character of students. This character transformation will create a better future for students, for those they serve, for families, for schools, for our government and for our nation.
Details
UthBuild is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that relies on gifts from individuals, businesses, grants, and other sources of funding. We partner with community organizations, businesses, and local government in Arizona to serve those in need of improved housing.UthBuild is an ecumenical Christian ministry. We work with students regardless of gender, race, or religion. We build and repair for those in need, regardless of gender, race or religion.
We are UthBuild…Building Youth, Dismantling Poverty.
We build youth by building and repairing homes for those in need. In our building, we find new ways to serve. Thus, “Building Youth. Dismantling Poverty.” We want to develop students by serving with them. A person’s character is transformed when they see and serve others who are not afforded the privileges they have been afforded. We build students. We build and repair homes. We help to dismantle poverty. We scholarship students of the families we build for in Mexico through high school in an effort to break systemic generational poverty.
History
Since 2008 UthBuild has built homes for impoverished families in Rocky Point, Mexico. Beginning in 2014, UthBuild has been working to help repair homes in Arizona. In addition to housing we help to provide meals for those in need. We collect furniture and clothing for those in need. Feeding the poor, housing the poor, clothing the poor, educating the poor––all of these things can, and will, transform the character of students. This character transformation will create a better future for students, for those they serve, for families, for schools, for our government and for our nation.
Details
UthBuild is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that relies on gifts from individuals, businesses, grants, and other sources of funding. We partner with community organizations, businesses, and local government in Arizona to serve those in need of improved housing.UthBuild is an ecumenical Christian ministry. We work with students regardless of gender, race, or religion. We build and repair for those in need, regardless of gender, race or religion.
We are UthBuild…Building Youth, Dismantling Poverty.
Stories & Faces
Alberto and Maricruz - Build Date March 2014
22′ x 11′ standard design
Home Features
Water: N
Electricity: N
Alberto is a hard-working local police officer, trying his best to provide for his beautiful family (his wife Maricruz, his 13 year old daughter Maria, and young sons Cruz and Rey). The family was living in a camper (the type designed to be mounted in the bed of a pickup truck) prior to the Uthbuild house being built. They now have a safe, secure house over their head, and a head start on a much brighter future. The Uthbuild team was also able to gift Alberto and Maricruz with furniture, quilts and a brand new bicycle for Maria.
Update: Maricruz had over 10 small growing rings around the lot when we built the house--do you have any seeds that do well in sandy soil or other gardening supplies for Maricruz? Some real dirt and some planting pots would be great, and perhaps even an upside down tomato growing bag.
Home Features
Water: N
Electricity: N
Alberto is a hard-working local police officer, trying his best to provide for his beautiful family (his wife Maricruz, his 13 year old daughter Maria, and young sons Cruz and Rey). The family was living in a camper (the type designed to be mounted in the bed of a pickup truck) prior to the Uthbuild house being built. They now have a safe, secure house over their head, and a head start on a much brighter future. The Uthbuild team was also able to gift Alberto and Maricruz with furniture, quilts and a brand new bicycle for Maria.
Update: Maricruz had over 10 small growing rings around the lot when we built the house--do you have any seeds that do well in sandy soil or other gardening supplies for Maricruz? Some real dirt and some planting pots would be great, and perhaps even an upside down tomato growing bag.
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Georgina - Build Date October 2009
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22′ x 11′ standard design plus 10′ x 22′ enclosed “living room” added to existing 20′ x 10′ Wiring and lights added to new additions Bathroom toilet and shower added. Home Features Water: Y Electricity: Y |
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Georgina and her four girls lived with her sister’s family about a mile away from the property where their new family home now sits. She was working, but could not get the resources together to support the girls in school and turn the 20′ x 10′ plywood-clad former market storefront into a suitable home. She had electricity available on site, so a power pole and disconnect was installed by the team while doing the concrete work for the new addition. A waste water tank was installed to facilitate the new shower and toilet, located in what was going to be simply a “breezeway” area between the old building and the new 22′ x 11′ house. A little quick planning and a few extra bags of concrete, plus a few more feet of walls, and we were able to marry the two buildings together, creating a single, fully roofed, fully stuccoed, and fully secure home for this beautiful family.
2014 Update: Georgina’s eldest daughter had a beautiful baby girl, so there are now three generations living in this home. To date, Georgina and her family have helped us build for more than ten new families. They keep track of when we head down each time, and make sure to meet us at the new site to lend a hand.
Ulysses - Build Date June 2010
Modified the 22′ x 11′ standard design to include 3 rooms, installed a bathroom toilet and shower drain in 3rd room.
Home Features
Water: Y
Electricity: Y
Ulysses is an amazing man with an amazing story. He suffers from cataracts and macular degeneration in his eyes, so over the last several years, Ulysses has gone completely blind. No longer able to perform his prior work duties, you can find him at the fisherman’s market on the docks selling styrofoam coolers in Rocky Point to those buying fresh shrimp and fish off the boats. That is what makes this house, and this particular build, so special. You see, Ulysses had a piece of property that has been in his family for ages just two blocks from the waterfront. He has lived on this property in a one room clapboard 8 x 8′ hut with a piece of plywood for a door for the last several years…but not any more.Today he is secure and comfortable in his new “mini-mansion” that is more than 3 times the size of his former “house” — and before we left, he had every square foot of it memorized. We made sure as we walked him literally over every foot of the floor, hands on the walls, describing the doorways, what sides the hinges were on, what direction he was facing (N,S, E, or W), and how many steps it took to get from wall to wall. It was an amazing experience to hear him respond with, “Yesss…I SEE IT!”
2014 Update: Ulysses’ house is a beautiful, bright blue color now, and his lab just had puppies. He can no longer sell coolers, but the fruit trees he planted while we were with him are now quite large and producing fruit for him to eat and sell. He loves his house, and is hopeful to one day have a surgery to bring back his eyesight. He’s enjoying life, especially the time with the new puppies.
Home Features
Water: Y
Electricity: Y
Ulysses is an amazing man with an amazing story. He suffers from cataracts and macular degeneration in his eyes, so over the last several years, Ulysses has gone completely blind. No longer able to perform his prior work duties, you can find him at the fisherman’s market on the docks selling styrofoam coolers in Rocky Point to those buying fresh shrimp and fish off the boats. That is what makes this house, and this particular build, so special. You see, Ulysses had a piece of property that has been in his family for ages just two blocks from the waterfront. He has lived on this property in a one room clapboard 8 x 8′ hut with a piece of plywood for a door for the last several years…but not any more.Today he is secure and comfortable in his new “mini-mansion” that is more than 3 times the size of his former “house” — and before we left, he had every square foot of it memorized. We made sure as we walked him literally over every foot of the floor, hands on the walls, describing the doorways, what sides the hinges were on, what direction he was facing (N,S, E, or W), and how many steps it took to get from wall to wall. It was an amazing experience to hear him respond with, “Yesss…I SEE IT!”
2014 Update: Ulysses’ house is a beautiful, bright blue color now, and his lab just had puppies. He can no longer sell coolers, but the fruit trees he planted while we were with him are now quite large and producing fruit for him to eat and sell. He loves his house, and is hopeful to one day have a surgery to bring back his eyesight. He’s enjoying life, especially the time with the new puppies.
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Our Parent Organization:
Purpose 68, Inc.
Scottsdale, AZ 85257
Our Parent Organization:
Purpose 68, Inc.
Scottsdale, AZ 85257
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