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Woman builds houses in Grenada via Poverty News Blog July 12th, 2008 at 13:45

image from the Marshfield News Herald MEDFORD -- When most people head to the Caribbean during Wisconsin's coldest and dreariest months, it is to relax on a beach. For Heidi Serrano, the trip offered an opportunity to do some good for others while honoring her late father.For nearly two weeks, Serrano and 11 other individuals from the Good News Project built homes for the underprivileged on the island of Grenada in the West Indies."The people in Grenada are living in such poverty that they can't afford to rebuild after the devastation of Hurricane Ivan in 2004 that basically leveled the island," Serrano said. "It felt good to know we were helping them start to get their lives back."Serrano helped build two homes: one for an elderly woman and another for a family of seven who were living in a...