A unique housing project in Burnaby will get a boost thanks to the efforts of a local child.
Caitlin Sankaran-Wee, a home-schooled student living in Vancouver, was chosen as a runner-up in the annual Meaning of Home contest, garnering $5,000 for the local Habitat for Humanity office.
In B.C., Habitat for Humanity has an office in Vancouver, with a major housing project under construction in Burnaby.
There were more than 3,000 entries to the annual writing competition, run by Genworth Canada, a private Canadian residential mortgage insurer.
Four other runner-ups won $5,000 for their local Habitat offices, with one grand prize winner in Calgary directing $60,000 to the Habitat project there.
The winners also got pizza parties for their respective classrooms; as Sankaran-Wee is home-schooled, she donated her pizza party to an inner-city school in Vancouver.
The contest has resulted in more than $450,000 in donations by Genworth to more than 30 Habitat for Humanity affiliates across the country since 2007.
For more on the contest, see www.meaningofhome.ca.
