The AMO program has supplied building materials to construct simple brick homes (@ $2500) for twenty selected AMO families since 1994 in the Bultrins, Santa Clara, Beira Rio and Jardim Fragoso favelas. The last house constructed was Gabriella’s in 2008 in the historic Farol neighbourhood of Olinda; she visited Vancouver in 2006 to participate in Vancouver’s International Peace Conference when fundraising for her house was commenced.
Impact: The impact of the AMO Housing Project is most visible and easiest to judge: in five weeks an impoverished family can occupy a house which they could not otherwise afford. A family which earns a minimal salary of $300 or less per month could not accumulate enough money to start or build a $2600 house. A new house is leak-free, is divided into bedrooms so the parents and children have their own bedrooms, and the mother can cook in a kitchen.
