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A low-income Tauranga family which looked like never owning its own home has been given the break of a lifetime by Habitat for Humanity.

David and Ivy Prentis shifted from Rotorua four years ago with their three children Destiny, 16, Gabrielle, 13 and Joshua, 7.

Mrs Prentis remembers telling her husband when they moved into their rental house in  Roys Rd, Greerton  that she did not want to move again unless it was into their own home.

However her husband's supermarket wages were always going to make it a test of faith, and faith was what the couple had in bucketfuls because they are both devout Christians.

They are now only a couple of months away from realising a dream that would never have been possible without Habitat for Humanity.

"I did not know how it would happen, but it has happened, and that is why I so appreciate Habitat for Humanity," she said.

All going well, in five years they will get the chance to buy the home tucked in with five other Habitat homes in a multicultural cul-de-sac at the end of Mansels Rd, Greerton, including families from Tonga and India.

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