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Emergency housing repair fund

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Roof, sanitation and structural repairs for eighty households living in unsafe conditions, prioritised by regional centres that already know the families.

MUR 1,620,000 raisedof MUR 4,800,000 target
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What your support buys

Rs 45,000 installs a sanitary block for one household.

Beneficiaries
80
Who benefits
80 households, approximately 310 people including 140 children

1 January 2026 – 30 June 2027

Focus:Socio-economic development as a means for poverty alleviationSocial housing
Where:Port LouisBlack RiverSavannePlaines Wilhems

About this project

A leaking roof is not a housing statistic to the family under it — it is damp walls, a child who is ill every winter, and possessions that cannot be kept. This fund pays for the repairs that make an existing home safe: roofing, water and sanitation connections, electrical safety, and structural work where a wall or floor has failed.

Cases come through the regional centres rather than an application form, because the centres already know which households are in difficulty and which have simply stopped asking. Work is done by local contractors, and each household contributes what it can, including labour.

What a contribution covers

  • Rs 12,000 replaces a corrugated roof section
  • Rs 45,000 installs a sanitary block for one household
  • Rs 120,000 covers a full structural repair on one dwelling

Demo content — an illustrative sample project, not an actual programme of this organisation.

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Updates

Twenty-two households completed this quarter — fourteen roof repairs, five sanitary blocks and three structural jobs. Two of the roof cases had been on the regional centre’s list for over a year waiting on funding.

The waiting list currently stands at 63 households. We are prioritising the cases with young children or an elderly resident.

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Contact about this project

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