Sis­ter Deb­o­rah de Rosia, the co­or­di­na­tor of the Mary Care Cen­tre in Wood­brook, which was de­stroyed by fire one week ago, says they need ap­prox­i­mate­ly $3 mil­lion to re­build the home for young preg­nant girls and their ba­bies.

On April 30, around 10:50 p.m., po­lice of­fi­cers from the Wood­brook Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed to a fire on Gal­lus Street.

When the of­fi­cers ar­rived, they met the care­tak­ers and oth­ers in the road­way.

One care­tak­er told the po­lice that while in her room, she heard the fire alarm, and up­on mak­ing checks, she ob­served smoke com­ing from the kitchen area and a room on the north­ern side of the home. Fire­fight­ers ex­tin­guished the blaze, and no one was in­jured.

The two tod­dlers and four teenage girls (one preg­nant) were tak­en in by the St. Jude’s Home for Girls, where they re­main cur­rent­ly, as de Rosia and oth­ers re­pair a tem­po­rary spot on Archer Street in Bel­mont. They were set to stay the week­end, but Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that re­pairs are still un­der­way at Archer Street, so they re­main at the Diego Mar­tin home for the rest of the week.

Ac­cord­ing to the pam­phlet, the Mary Care Cen­tre pro­vides a sanc­tu­ary for young preg­nant girls/women from age 12. The home al­so helps the young moth­ers with food and shel­ter for them and their chil­dren, as well as job op­por­tu­ni­ties.