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Tarneisah Whitehead family
Tarneisah Whitehead saw how unsafe her apartment complex was for her 12-year-old daughter, Ebony, and decided it was time to go. The two are now sharing a room in Whitehead’s mother’s house in Anacostia, but they will soon have a new Habitat home in Ivy City.
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Andargachew Negash family
Andargachew Negash is excited about moving his family into a better space. He, his wife and their three children are crammed into a two-bedroom, rodent-infested apartment that costs $1,000 a month to rent. After getting his new Habitat home, he hopes to go to pharmacy school.
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Donna Hines family
Donna Hines says there have been murders around the public housing high-rise where she lives with her two sons. “I think my kids deserve better,” she says. Soon, she will have a three-bedroom house for her sons, her 16-year-old nephew, and her new baby daughter.
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Endalkachew Haile family
Endalkachew Haile and his wife, Dagmawit Belete, came to the U.S. three years ago from Ethiopia, seeking a better life. For nine months, they have lived in a vermin-infested apartment with faulty wiring and a leaky air-conditioning unit. They look forward to having a new home for their baby son, Tinsae.
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Kiona Mack family
Kiona Mack tries to keep her two children active, but she says the federally subsidized apartment complex where she lives is not a safe environment. Soon, however, her son, Arnez, and daughter, Arreona, will have a yard to play in behind their new Habitat house.
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Norma Gales
For the past five years, Norma Gales has seen her rent fluctuate between $295 and $746, making it nearly impossible to budget wisely. But the new Habitat home she will share with her 13-year-old daughter, Tiara, will have a stable, affordable mortgage.
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Shawanna Davis
Shawanna Davis said there’s a very simple reason why she worked so persistently to partner with Habitat for Humanity of Washington, D.C.: her three children. Davis has already been volunteering on the weekends on Habitat work in Ivy City, where her family will have a new home.
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