With fi­nan­cial as­sis­tance from two good samar­i­tans and ma­te­ri­als he sal­vaged af­ter his home was de­stroyed by a land­slip, a sin­gle fa­ther is work­ing hard to have a “home” ready in time for his son’s birth­day on Thurs­day.

While the wood­en struc­ture would be in­com­plete and with­out a wa­ter and elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply, Mar­cus Bruce says they will be more com­fort­able than their cur­rent sit­u­a­tion.

Bruce, a self-em­ployed con­struc­tion work­er, has been stay­ing at his rel­a­tive’s house with his two sons ages two and four since a land­slip de­stroyed their home at Moru­ga Road, Cachipe Vil­lage, mere days be­fore Christ­mas.

How­ev­er, they have been sleep­ing on a mat­tress in the hall as space is an is­sue.

He found a spot to build not far from his house and has been us­ing ma­te­ri­als he sal­vaged from his home to re­build.

The home of his sis­ter, which was in front of his, al­so crum­bled.

His sis­ter, Kim­ber­ly Bruce, and her two chil­dren ages 16 months and sev­en years are say­ing by their moth­er, but she al­so need help to re­build. Kim­ber­ly who is un­em­ployed suf­fered a mis­car­riage days af­ter their homes were de­stroyed.

When con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, Bruce was on his way to pur­chase ma­te­r­i­al with the mon­ey he re­ceived from the two peo­ple.

“I don’t know how far it would reach but I still thank­ful for what I get,” said Bruce. He is hop­ing to com­plete at least one room be­fore his son’s fifth birth­day on Thurs­day so they could move in­to the house to be a “bit more com­fort­able.”

His old­er son’s tablet was al­so de­stroyed dur­ing the in­ci­dent. As a re­sult, he said his son is un­able to do on­line class­es.

Mean­while, the land­slip is al­so threat­en­ing the homes of two oth­er fam­i­lies as well as two par­lours. Celia Louban who lives with her hus­band and four chil­dren is wor­ried that her home will be next to go.

She said when the land be­gan cav­ing ten months ago she re­port­ed it to the au­thor­i­ties, but noth­ing was done.

“Since it start­ed to move it just drop in a sink and just con­tin­ue. The more the rain falls, the more it just con­tin­ue sink­ing. The tank stand went three or four months ago…The walls in­side the house start­ed to crack and out­side the toi­let start­ed to crack,” she told Guardian Me­dia.

An­oth­er res­i­dent Lynette Coop­er, 58, who al­so runs a par­lour along the Moru­ga Road is con­cerned that her busi­ness which is her on­ly means of in­come will be de­stroyed.

When Guardian Me­dia reached out to the Min­istry of Works and Trans­port, an of­fi­cial said the mat­ter is be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed.

Any­one will­ing to as­sist the fam­i­lies could con­tact 360-8339.