The Mena Family in front of their Tolles Street property in Nashua. Photo by Marie Matthews.

More than ten years ago the Mena family was searching for a home in the French Hill area of Nashua when they found out about Habitat for Humanity.  “There was an auction for a house on Tolles Street and they bid on the house but it didn’t work out.”  That’s when Nancy Metsiou, a Mena family cousin, found out about Habitat for Humanity through the newspaper.  “Habitat turned out to be a much better proposition,” explains Family Selection Committee member Vicki Hatfield.

Elizabeth Mena says that Habitat for Humanity seemed like such an unbelievable blessing: she and her husband Luis Mena felt the house they were bidding on was not meant to be and that God knew of a better plan for them… but they had their reservations.  “We had a lot of doubts – when we met the Habitat for Humanity team everything sounded so great”.  Elizabeth laughs when she looks back: “as typical Colombians, we felt it was too good to be true!” (more…)