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Monday 20
December 2010 |
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Costa
Rica
Peace
Corps
Director
Commits
To
Supporting
Global
Housing
Solutions'
Peace
Corps
Country
Director,
Steven
Dorsey,
has
expressed
willingness
to
support
Investments
in Costa
Rica and
Global
Housing
Solutions’
social
housing
project,
in
Colorado,
Costa
Rica.
This
unique
collaboration
will
bring
the
Peace
Corps’
fifty
years'
experience
to bear
at the
grass
roots
level of
this
community’s
inception.
The
involvement
of the
Peace
Corps
adds
massive
value to
the
project,
which
already
offers
sound
investment
returns,
by
helping
to
guarantee
the
project
meets
its goal
of
providing
investors
with
social
and
political
returns
too.
Mr
Dorsey
said:
"We
would be
glad to
place a
Peace
Corps
Volunteer
in or
near the
Colorado
Project
to help
build a
real
community.
Building
houses
does not
build a
community
organically.
It takes
concentrated
effort
and
skills
execute
community
organization
and
development,
and
that’s
where we
come
in.”
In a
recent
interview
Investments
in Costa
Rica
asked
Mr.
Dorsey
to
describe
some of
the
real,
grass
roots
changes
social
housing
projects
achieve
in his
experience.
He said:
“Social
Housing
opens
new
opportunities
for
disadvantaged
and
underserved
populations.”
He
described
how this
works,
saying:
“It
gives
them the
opportunity
to
become
home/property
owners,
as most
are
disenfranchised.
It can
also
help
them
feel
more
part of
a
community
that is
organized
(depending
on how
that
organization
is
carried
out).”
He also
noted
the
personal
value of
social
housing
projects:
“It
strengthens
the
self-esteem
of
individuals
and
families.
It
provides
stability
and
security
for
children
in their
education
and
health.”
Mr
Dorsey
drew
attention
to the
fact
that,
while
Costa
Rica is
a
tourist
haven,
there
are
under
developed
areas
and many
who live
in
inadequate,
unsafe
housing.
In his
opinion,
providing
social
housing
to these
communities
will
help to
lower
the
growing
disparity
between
the
wealthy
and
underserved.
The
Colorado
Project
is a
venture
philanthropy
project,
part of
a new
wave of
socially
responsible
investment
sweeping
the
corporate
world.
Projects
of this
nature
combine
perfectly
with the
Costa
Rican
government’s
goal to
eradicate
poverty
in the
next two
decades,
which
the
national
bank
also
guarantees
with its
proven
backing
of
investments
in
social
housing
over the
last 23
years. |
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