Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) and Habitat for Humanity join forces again to help build 10 Habitat houses in the town of Haina, a community located roughly 30 minutes from the Dominican Republic’s capital of Santo Domingo. This initiative forms part of Delta’s Force for Global Good Program, an initiative aimed to create positive local and global change.
More than 50 Delta employees will build structurally safe homes made of concrete in Haina, replacing makeshift homes made of wood, palm trees and discarded materials, as well as dirt floors, structurally unsound walls and roofs made of rusty, corrugated tin sheets.
“We are privileged to be able to support communities in need,” said Maria Fernanda Price, Sales Manager for Central America and the Caribbean. “Helping families in Haina improve their living conditions is pertinent to Delta, as this community already suffers from high poverty levels and one of the worst pollution cases in the world.”
Delta volunteers will be joined by Daniel Dixon from Glastonbury, CT, a Delta Platinum SkyMiles® member who bid 325,000 miles in an online auction to win the opportunity to participate in the build. The miles will be donated to Habitat for Humanity. Daniel will be joined on this trip by his daughter Caroline.
“Delta's donations and volunteers will help improve the living conditions of many in Haina and provide critical support to Habitat for Humanity Dominican Republic's ongoing efforts aimed to serve more than 100 families in the region,” said Cesarina Fabián, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity Dominican Republic.
This will be the third time Delta volunteers and Habitat for Humanity have worked together in Latin America. In 2008, Delta volunteers built 12 houses in Casablanca, Chile, and following the February 27, 2010 earthquake,
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