Success StoriesCelena Strickland
In the letter she recently wrote to NEDCO expressing her gratitude for NEDCO’s help she wrote, “This program has helped my dreams of owning a home come true… I found out about the NEDCO program and signed right up. I have followed their counsel and made a plan, set goals and followed a budget…And I’ve jumped over, around, and through every hurdle that came my way (and boy did they throw the hurdles at me). |
Celena, a contractor for U.S. Postal Service, first came to NEDCO to join the Threshold program in June 2004. A single mother of six children, Celena began the lease purchase program in April 2005 and was able to purchase her home in Springfield in September2005.