{"id":25896,"date":"2025-02-01T18:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T18:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=25896"},"modified":"2025-02-01T18:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T18:36:04","slug":"family-of-six-receives-new-home-in-time-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/family-of-six-receives-new-home-in-time-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Six Receives New Home in Time for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Celestine Chacon<\/em><br><em>December 19, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A family of six from Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, has been gifted a new home, just in time for the Christmas season, thanks to the Office of the First Lady.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa Reddy, a single mother of four boys, along with her 63-year-old mother, are now the proud owners of a fully furnished home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The residence includes three bedrooms, a spacious living room, a furnished kitchen, and a washroom, all valued at 15.3 million Guyana dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the third home handed over by the Office of the First Lady, marking a continued effort to improve the living conditions of families in need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The home will provide the family with a safe and comfortable space to live, helping to improve their quality of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the home, the First Lady\u2019s Office has also committed to providing a grant of $500,000 to assist the family in setting up a poultry farm at the back of the house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative is aimed at supplementing the family\u2019s income and supporting the educational goals of Lisa\u2019s four sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The handover of the home is part of a larger initiative to address housing needs for families across the country, with an emphasis on fairness, transparency, and improving the lives of Guyanese citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Celestine ChaconDecember 19, 2024 A family of six from Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, has been gifted a new home, just in time for the Christmas season, thanks to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25897,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25896\/revisions\/25897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}