The Kennedy High School football team and its supporters recently completed a series of fundraising projects to help fund a home for a family living in the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Together they raised $10,000 to assist a family currently living in a cardboard and scrap lumber hut build brick homes.
Kennedy High Principal Troy Stoops congratulated head football coach Randy Traeger and the coaching staff and students “for achieving this amazing milestone. It is proof that there are no limits to what can be accomplished when your heart is in the right place and the focus is making a positive difference in the lives of others.”
Construction on the 90-square meter home for the Rosanna and Jeremias Rivera -Durand family in Flores de Villa will begin immediately. The couple has three small children. They presently live in a one-room hut with dirt floor and corrugated tin roof.
The “Huts to Homes” venture is guided by Kennedy’s Spanish teacher and coach David Stavros who was a former resident of Lima and is familiar with both the residents and the living conditions there.
“Having a home built of brick and mortar is not even a remote possibility without the help of the Kennedy High football family and friends,” he said.
