Annual Report FY2016

to see daylight when
once,
open your eyes,
you
slogging thru the wet
up,
to make breakfast for
floor
16-year-old and 8-
your
daughters, and
year-old
and shocked from
damp,
faulty electrical in the
the
and Davis Counties,
Weber
have an amazing
we
are the Diaz family.
They
and her two
Reyna
Through it all have
years.
have become a
they
was a young teen.
Reyna
30, Reyna had her
Now
daughter, Esperanza,
first
she was only 14. Reyna
when
She believed she
ex)-husband.
marrying a wonderful man
was
she thought he was,
man
she discovered after he
which
He wiped them out
accounts.
and disappeared to
financially
She had to take out
months.
loans and maxed out
payday
THE DIAZ
FAMILY
129 30TH STREET
OGDEN UT 84401
struggled to raise Esperanza on
her own until she met her (now
I
magine...waking up each
the mold, cold from the
and a few years later, they had
Amisadai.
morning and wishing, for
Unfortunately he was not the
wet basement of a rental.
instead of moldy walls and
feeling wet carpet under
At Habitat for Humanity of
became physically and verbally
your feet.
abusive.
Imagine....finally getting
family we would like to tell
A few years ago he took their
you about.
tax return money as well as all
of the money in their bank
not being able to make
daughters Esperanza and
Mexico, leaving her penniless.
anything hot because the
Amisadai have been
stove gives off an electrical
through an unbelievable
Not long after that, Reyna was
shock each time
journey over the last 16
in a car accident and was
you touch it.
unable to work for over 6
What if....Habitat for
stronger more cohesive
Humanity were to give a
family.
her credit cards to take care of
hand up to help a family
her medical bills and her
like this one get into a
Reyna's mother left when
young daughters. Because of
better place to live, so they
the income loss as she
could stop being sick from
recovered from the accident,