Verde Communities residents are invited to attend the dedication ceremony for a Verdes Habitat for Humanity project home on Saturday, Aug. 24, at 10 a.m.
The ceremony will take place at the …
You must be a member to read this story.
Join our family of readers for as little as $5 per month and support local, unbiased journalism.
Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here
Otherwise, follow the link below to join.
To Our Valued Readers –
Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.
For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.
Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.
Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.
Need to set up your free e-Newspaper all-access account? click here.
Non-subscribers
Click here to see your options for becoming a subscriber.
Register to comment
Click here create a free account for posting comments.
Note that free accounts do not include access to premium content on this site.
I am anchor
CEREMONY
Habitat home for Cissoumas to be dedicated
Built by Verde Communities volunteers
(Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity)
Djbril Cissouma and his daughter, Farimata, are the beneficiaries of a Habitat for Humanity home built by Verde volunteers that will be dedicated on Saturday, Aug. 24.
Posted
Verde Communities residents are invited to attend the dedication ceremony for a Verdes Habitat for Humanity project home on Saturday, Aug. 24, at 10 a.m.
The ceremony will take place at the home, 3606 S. Roosevelt St., in Tempe.
Djbril Cissouma and his daughter, Farimata will move into the home. It was 2012 when Djbril first learned about Habitat and its mission. Still in school and living in another city, Djbril decided then to become a Habitat volunteer.
In 2020, Djbril moved to Phoenix, began working for Bank of America and met someone who told him about Habitat’s Home Ownership Program. Currently, Djbril lives in a two-bedroom apartment with his daughter where the cost of rent is high, and he worries about neighborhood safety.
“Owning a Habitat home will totally change my life,” he said. “I will be able to save more money where I will be able to go back to school, spend more time with my daughter, Farimata, and be more financially stable.
“And coming from Mali, being able to practice our family traditions of connection and celebration.”
Djbril’s daughter has not started school yet but wishes that she becomes a doctor, a wish he once had for himself. Now, it’s all about the new life Djbril and his daughter will share once they move into their new Habitat home.
“I know that I wouldn’t receive this help from anyone else. Thank you, Habitat, from the bottom of my heart,” Djbril said.
The Verdes Habitat for Humanity volunteers plan to begin work on the 29th home they have built for Habitat this coming fall.
The Cissouma home was the 27th home built by the group in 2023. The 28th home, also built in Tempe, was completed earlier this year but has yet to be dedicated.