Jucu needs you!
This is more than a call for help—it’s an invitation to be part of a pivotal moment of change. By donating to build a crucial support wall in our “city set upon a hill”, you’re not just preventing landslides; you’re actively safeguarding 16 families and their homes, setting the cornerstone for Transylvania’s largest non-profit social housing community.
Stand with us: your donation today is the key to making a real difference.
16
families need your help to safeguard their homes
100+
homes to be built in this community
300+
US and Romanian volunteers work yearly
25
years of local
non-profit building
A community in danger
What are we fundraising for?
We are raising funds to build a crucial support wall that will prevent landslides and save homes in the “Britta Sofia” non-profit housing community in Jucu de Sus, Romania.
A permanent support wall, with tough rebar and pillars drilled 40 feet deep into the earth, will cost $180,000 – as much as five new homes – but it will allow us to further develop the land and help more than 100 families.
In fact, any funds left over from the support wall project will go towards urban planning of the area, ensuring similar problems won’t crop up in the future.
Why is this needed?
Years after the first homes were finished, with unusually heavy rains, shifting of underground springs and continued land works, landslides have begun jeopardizing the hard work of volunteers, families and staff.
The infrastructure originally designed to manage water flow was overwhelmed, so in response, new drainage lines were installed and a temporary support wall was built from gabions. Essentially large wire baskets filled with rock, they served as a makeshift bulwark against the forces of nature. Today, this solution is no longer sufficient to protect the homes and the families within them.
What we have done so far
Donate for the project today
Help us continue the work. We’ve invested 10 years of work in this community,
and you can give us the power to write a happy new chapter.
Technical specs
- 3,600 linear feet of bored piles (concrete, with rebar)
- 15,114 cubic feet of concrete
- 100,000+ pounds of rebar
Images are actual technical drawings from the project. Right click image and open in new tab for full versions. Full project can be sent to any donors requesting it.
Meet the families
Building a community, one family at a time
Real people, real families. In the first 9 duplexes on the on-profit housing „Britta Sofia” community, 16 families have already moved in and are living the joy of homeownership. The next four units, currently approaching the end of their construction, will be finished this year, so that four more families will move in by the end of 2024. There is enough land here that this can become the largest non-profit social housing community anywhere in Transylvania – with your support at this key moment in time.
25 years of service – a proven track record
The housing program in Cluj has existed since 1999, and since 2017 worked indepedently as “PRIMA DATĂ ACASĂ”. In 2022, we became a Covenant Partner of the Fuller Center for Housing. For 25 years, with help with volunteers from across the globe, we’ve build 7 communities with 100 new homes, all while helping more than 300 other families with renovations and home improvement programs.
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