Nearly the every home in the community of Matazano was destroyed in the January 13 earthquake.

The parish of Teotepeque has built an an entire housing development to serve the needs of these earthquake victims.

  Each house, costing $2,000 has louvered windows, bars for security over the windows, metal doors with locks, cement floors and zinc roofs (cooler than galvanized steel) a latrine and reinforced walls built to withstand the next earthquake.

They may not seem like much by U.S. standards, but these houses are far better than the homes they occupied before the earthquake.

Occupants have helped by donating work hours to the project, and each family will pay 10% of the cost of the house over the next two years.

The church is building simple, but dignified housing for people that lost everything.