Ayisha Kedir knows that she needs to do
whatever it takes to build her family a better
future.
Ayisha and her three children currently live in an apartment
in a very dangerous
neighborhood. They regularly hear
gunshots ring outside their apartment doors, and
have no
sense of comfort or safety in their home. In fact, each
night as Alisha tucks
her son in to bed, he asks "Mom,
are the bad guys going to shoot me?". It’s
heartbreaking
for Ayisha to know that her children don’t feel safe while
they fall asleep
at night.
Ayisha is determined to work hard
and make a significant change in her family’s living
situation. She works 45 hours per week at her job in
customer service, and carefully
plans her days off so
that she can invest sweat equity and help build her future
Habitat
home and take home buyer education classes. "I’m
a single mother working hard so
that my kids can have a
better future," Ayisha shares with hope and determination.
If the gunshots and dangerous
neighborhood weren’t enough to worry about, Ayisha
and
her kids endure even more pests inside the wall" The entire
family is looking
forward to having a safe place to rest
their heads each night in their new Habitat home.
With
their house scheduled to begin construction this March,
Ayisha and her kids are
counting down the months until
they can move into their brand new, safe and stable
home.