How Losani Homes Is Making An Impact
In Hamilton – And Ecuador
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As Fred Losani and company gear up to launch a 65-acre master planned project in Stoney Creek that abuts the Eramosa Karst conservation area, the team found time to fly to Ecuador to do work for a children's charity.
Here's the Losani group in the village of Mon Dana. (Fred, Losani Homes' president, is seen at centre.) Fifteen of them made the trip to open a hospital they developed with the Free The Children charity. While there, they helped construct a…
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