Proyecto Azteca holds 33rd Anniversary Dinner, honors Hidalgo County Commissioner Eduardo Cantu
By RAUL GARCIA JR | Edinburg Daily Review
Proyecto Azteca celebrated 33 years of Building a Better World at an evening dinner to celebrate its work offering services to the community. The evening engagement was held at the Legacy Chapel in Edinburg on May 1, 2024. At the event Proyecto Azteca Honored Hidalgo County Commissioner Eduardo Cantu Precinct 2 as a Champion of the Community.
“It’s an honor to be honored by this great organization,” Cantu said. “We supported Proyecto Azteca with some money to rebab some homes and its been a great partnership, and we really love all the work that they do. They are a blessing to this community.”
With funding handed to the County, Commissioner Cantu was able to gift Proyecto Azteca money needed to help the organization to renovate homes and help families upgrade their homes.
“If they didn’t have a ramp, didn’t have insulation or didn’t have a shower, now they do,” said Amber Arriaga-Salina, Proyecto Azteca Assistant Executive Director.
Amber Arriaga-Salinas presented Commissioner Cantu with symbolic hand tool and personalized rosewood compass. She said they were symbols to help him continue his hard work and to stay on the path of helping people.
Many people attended the dinner to celebrate Proyecto Azteca’s milestone in helping build the community. Proyecto Azteca Executive Director Ann Cass thanked a long list of community partners who were in attendance for helping the organization to grow over the years and meet its mission of helping families.
ABOUT PROYECTO AZTECA
Proyecto Azteca was created in 1991 in the spirit of Cesar Chavez as a means of addressing the housing crisis in the Rio Grande Valley colonias in Hidalgo County, Texas. Members of Proyecto Azteca’s board of directors live in low-income areas or represent low-income areas. Residents developed a housing program based on the colonia tradition of owner-built houses
Proyecto Azteca’s mission, rooted in the hope of creating a more equitable society, is to build stable and vibrant communities by providing quality affordable housing for low and very low-income families, traditionally denied housing opportunities, and empowering them to become responsible homeowners.
Volunteer
If you would like to volunteer contact our Executive Director, Ann W. Cass, at annwcass@aol.com or Assistant Executive Director at, Amber Arriaga-Salinas at admin@proyectoazteca.org**
Proyecto Azteca facilitates construction for low income families that live in rural areas in Hidalgo County, TX.
The program is a self-help model that requires that families work on their own homes. Unfortunately, some of our families who are either disabled, elderly or both cannot fulfill the 550 “sweat equity” hour requirement that our programs ask for and that is where volunteers become the real difference for our families. The hours our volunteers put in are banked and used to help elderly and disabled families meet their sweat equity requirement.
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