This group of 24 families have supported and encouraged each other for many years, working diligently to find a way out of the crushing poverty in which they find themselves. Each family has at least one member who has a disability. The group chose as its motto, “Love is able”, to signify that they would work in love to find solutions to the many challenges they face every day. These people truly were the “poorest of the poor”.
The families formed the Maari Able Group and in 1999 they met Mary Steiner and began working with Give Us Wings. Initially, Give Us Wings helped the families to obtain desperately needed health care, education, organic farming training and business training.
The members of the Maari Group dreamed that each family would have their own, clean safe house in which to raise their family. Give Us Wings, with the help of donors in the United States, has helped the Group build 24 beautiful houses in a community where they can continue to live together and support each other. They are scheduled to move into their new community in June 2012!
After years of hard work and perseverance, the members of the Maari Able Group, with the help of Give Us Wings and our supporters, will soon realize their dreams of living in lovely new homes and having access to the resources they need to build businesses and sustain themselves and their families into the future!
