Dear TRP Supporter,
As an immigrant to Chicago, I understand how difficult life can be when your new city is unfamiliar and you’re separated from family and friends.
Having this experience so early in life taught me to be generous to others because you never know what struggles they have seen.
This drives The Resurrection Project’s three-pillar Community Resurrection Model. Our pillars—Community Ownership, Community Wealth Building, and Stewardship of Community Assets—combine to create a welcoming community with places our new neighbors and adopted families can call home.
I’d like to tell you about a family TRP was able to help, who now call Casa Querétaro home.
The Paz family came to Chicago seeking expert medical opinion for their 6-year-old son who is now receiving treatment for brain cancer here, treatment he cannot receive in their home of Honduras.
The family stayed for 6 months in the Illinois Medical District guesthouse but needed something long-term and affordable for their two other children to call home during this difficult time.
Lourdes, a civil engineer in Honduras, discovered The Resurrection Project during her ESL class at Malcolm X College and moved into Casa Queretaro as soon as it opened.
“I was fearful for my family and could not have expected all of the support we have received since being here. Without The Resurrection Project, I am not sure where my family would be living right now. And the apartment, with three bedrooms, is enough space for all of us at a cost we can afford. We are close to the hospital, and schools too,” shares Lourdes.
Your support means the Paz family and more like them who are in need of affordable housing will have a home where they feel safe—and proud—to come to every night.
You make this possible! Thank you.
In early February, The Resurrection Project opened Casa Querétaro at the corner of 17^th and Damen in Chicago’s Pilsen community.
This project, nearly 20 years in the making, transformed the corner from a violent past into 45 units of affordable housing. In the 1990s, TRP and area residents organized to tear down the abandoned silos that used to be on the vacant lot.
“The silos and vacant lot,” says lifelong Pilsen resident Alicia Rocha,“was a magnet for criminal activity, garbage, and rat infestations. Casa Querétaro will improve the neighborhood and continue to stabilize families on this block.”
This is what Community Ownership looks like!
Casa Querétaro is the first step in TRP’s Vision 2020 to do more in the next 5 years than in the past 25.
Your continued support of TRP and projects like Casa Querétaro enables families like Lourdes’ to find comfort and stability in a home they love!
Please consider a gift today and partner with TRP in creating healthy communities.
Thank you for your past and continued support.
Raul Raymundo
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
PS: Your new or returning donation will be matched in its entirety—dollar for dollar—by a generous supporter of the Imagine More Campaign who has challenged us to bring you back! Thank you for your gifts, today and always!