Gift Package: Help build a home for a family in Colombia

Civilian displacement is a premeditated war strategy to seize land ownership and control. The UN refugee agency ranks Colombia second only to Sudan in its number of internally displaced persons. There are more displaced persons in Bogota than in anywhere else in Colombia. Social services provide inadequate support to families. Without government support structure or income or savings, displaced families have no other option but to live in a tiny rented room or build precarious shacks. Given Colombia's recent political and economic crisis, Servivienda, an affiliate of The Resource Foundation, created a fund to donate part of a home's cost to the poorest families (usually headed by single or widowed mothers) but still needs additional funds to finance 100% of a house's construction for the neediest cases. You can help Servivienda build a home by donating $1,000 for a house's construction. Buyers make a $100 downpayment, thus covering 50% of the cost. Servivienda finances the rest.