AKB Home Repair – Recovering Cancer Survivor
Help an elderly low income couple with multiple health issues replace their failing roof structure. This will allow the couple to live in a house that doesn’t leak and is up to current building codes.
AKB Home Repair - Elderly single lady in mobile home.
Son purchased new cabinets and plywood flooring. With 14 volunteers, AKB was able to remove old cabinets and install new ones as well as a free standing range and counter top and also lay plywood throughout the house.
Septic Tank
1,500 gallon tank with 300 feet of leach line installation.
Purpose: to help a recently widowed lady replace her tank so she would be able to split her property so as to sell one parcel to pay for her deceased husbands medical bills.
New Roof
Help an elderly low income couple with multiple health issues replace their failing roof structure. This will allow the couple to live in a house that doesn't leak and is up to current building codes.
Mobile Home Repair
This is a Single Lady who needed some help and no one else to turn to. AKB was able to meet her need through volunteers and a private donation for the materials. The project consisted of removal of the old skirting that was rotting and falling down around her Mobil home. Animals were taking up residence under her home causing physical and health risk issues. AKB volunteers were able to successfully put new material around the home securing her home from intruders. Thanks to the volunteers and private donors – we are able to say, “another person has been assisted in their need.”
Single Family Home Fire Repair and Restoration
This is a family of seven whose husband has been without employment for a long period of time. After a fire that started in the kitchen area took out a large portion of the home, the family tried to piece it back together when money became available. The family lived several years without windows in the home and a house that is in continual repair. We were notified of the need through the local city's code enforcement agent. The agent informed us that the family's home has to be finalized by April 11, 2010 or the structure will have to been torn down and new permits would have to be issued. This project consists of putting on exterior siding, finishing the rough plumbing in the house, finish the electrical, installing a fire sprinkler system, insulating, sheet-rocking with taping of the seams completed, and painting the exterior.
Mexico Structure built for Mexico Outreach,
Azusa Pacific University – January, 2008
From level dirt to finished 3,000 square foot, two story building completed in 8 days with 60 men and 6 women. The structure consists of a full 1,500 square foot three bedrooms and one bathroom, with laundry room, full kitchen and living room house. In this house there are oak cabinets, tile counter tops, washer and dryer, range, dishwasher, and microwave. The floors are floating laminate wood with tile in the bathroom and bedroom number 2. For cooling there is a swamp cooler on the roof.
The downstairs consists of a little apartment to be used by APU staff and Missionaries that are in the area, there is a full laundry room, two toilet and sink rooms, three showers, and two large rooms for storage and an office area.
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Kitchen and Bathrooms for Mexico Outreach,
Azusa Pacific University – January, 2009
We were able to build a 1,200 square foot kitchen structure. The structure consisted of concrete slab, two by six walls that were nine foot tall, six by eight exposed rafters, large front swinging doors, plastered walls inside and out, and with a front porch. The bathrooms we built consisted of 4 rooms with toilets and a 3,000 gallon plus septic tank built by hand with 500+ feet of leach lines. The building was plastered inside and out with a little front porch.
Addition to Local Home
Single Mom’s Place
Not long after this single mom’s husband had passed away, she bought a home in Paradise, CA for her and her young daughter. Shortly after moving in a fire started in her back porch and burnt through her Kitchen and Living Room, starting to go down the hallway to the bedrooms when the Fire Department was able to put it out. This lady and her daughter lived in the detached garage without money and no insurance to fix up the house. A neighbor contacted us and we started the project. Through donations and manpower we were able to get this lady and her daughter back into there home, with a new back service porch, kitchen, and living room complete with a new wood stove and heating system.