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La Crosse group heading to Kyrgyzstan to build homes
Part of the Habitat for Humanity Global Village project
Some individuals from the La Crosse area will head to Kyrgyzstan in August to assist in building homes.
The trip is part of the Habitat for Humanity Global Village program that takes people to all different parts of the globe to help build homes for people in impoverished areas.
“The poverty level currently hovers around 35-40 percent,” La Crosse’s Andrea Van Sickle, a team leader with habitat, said of Kyrgyzstan. “Seventy percent are living in substandard housing.”
Van Sickle added the economic downturn was brought on by the fall of the Soviet Union of which Kyrgyzstan was affiliated.
While there, Van Sickle, and other area volunteers, will be finishing half-built homes – ones where people ran out of resources to complete.