Category Archives: Urban Planning

This is why we come to work

Meet the Ghimire family. Thanks to CHWC’s involvement in the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) program, they are able to afford their very own home. Tara Ghimire, pictured, was born in the country of Bhutan. His ancestors had migrated from the … Continue reading

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Minor Home Repair

We at CHWC are happy to offer minor home repair assistance, when the funds are available to do so, to our constitutents in Wyandotte County. One such family who received assistance from CHWC this summer were Gilbert and Lydia Rocha. … Continue reading

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Changing Lives

I’d like to introduce you to the Kua Te family, originally from Burma. Due to horrendous government oppression and corruption, in the mid-2000s the family migrated to Malaysia. Unfortunately, the Malaysian government views Burmese refugees as illegal immigrants, so, in … Continue reading

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An Urban Optimist’s view of her hometown

KCK ,a great place to live? I am a “Dotte original”, born and raised in a house in KCK that has now been made desolate by foreclosure. I went to the same public middle and high schools that my mother … Continue reading

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