A finished wooden home stands on stilts under palm trees, children playing below

A safe home above the floods

In Gales Point, Belize, homes are failing. You can help build each family a sturdy home on stilts, one house at a time, until the whole town stands on solid ground.

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A girl laughs with her arms crossed in front of her pink stilt home

A stunning place with almost no economy

About 300 people live in Gales Point, most of them descendants of formerly enslaved people who escaped and built a life on this remote stretch of coast.

Fishing is the main work and pays around $2 to $3 a day, far too little to replace a rotting floor or a roof that leaks in every storm. When the water rises, homes built on the ground flood.

75: failing homes the town will rebuild
16 by 24: feet, every new home, raised on stilts
2021: the year our work in Gales Point began

Local leaders set the goal

The goal belongs to the community’s leader: every one of the 75 failing houses repaired or rebuilt. We have committed to seeing it through together.

Our history here began in 2021 with an aquaponics system that grows food for the town. Then the work turned to shelter, and our house building program was born.