Ferris Team 2 - Cutberto and Maria

Chris, Chelsea, Cassie, Emma, Stacie, Danielle, Devon, Justin, Cameron, Joe, Mike and Kate (behind the camera)

Ferris Team 2 built for Cutberto and his wife, Maria and their grandchildren.  Cutberto was amazing - he would work with us during the day on every aspect of the house and then leave around 4:30p to go to work at night.  Maria told us he would sleep for about 4 hours and then get up and help us again.  We were so disappointed that he had to leave to go back to work before we dedicated the house on Wednesday!

All of the families that we built for this year had been on a waiting list for a house for a long time.  Cutberto and Maria had been waiting for at least 6-7 months, and their home was one of the worst that some of the Casas staff had seen in a long time.  You can see it in pictures below, but their previous house had been pallets stacked up, with sheet metal holding it all together and a couple of old doors as a roof. The couple times we went through the house to plug in extension cords, we were amazed that anyone could live in a house like this and be happy. But, both of them and all of their grandkids seemed very happy and content.  They are VERY excited to move into their new house though and make that their living space.  It will be much warmer for them!

Preparing the slab

Chris, Mike, Emma, Cassie, Chelsea, Danielle and Justin spreading the slab

Cutberto and Maria's original house

The storm clouds moving in over the site

Standing the walls

Chelsea and Devon working on the roof sections

Cameron adding the electrical lines in the walls

Mike. Chris and Fernando doing blackboard

Emma. Cassie and Chelsea

Emma and Kate working on chicken wire

Lunch break!

The hard working drywall crew

Emma, Cassie, Danielle and Chelsea with the neighborhood girls

Cassie, Danielle, Stacie and Chelsea as the roofing crew

The finished house!

Devon, Justin and Cameron in front of the finished house

The extra gifts given to each family from Ferris students