Centro Humanitario
About us
Additional DBA - EL Centro Humanitario. We are a non-profit organization
Business highlights
Services we offer
Training for job skills, protect rights of hirees, rights advocation. Workers available for hire and employment programs., woman's project
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Seems like a great idea: help out new (legal) immigrants by hiring them for labor gigs and providing them tools until they can get established in this country.
Sadly, a great concept has been destroyed. The ONLY thing these guys are capable of (unless you speak excellent Spanish) is heavy lifting. Providing drawings (no, literally, I drew the pattern of tiles on the wall), or plans on quadrille ruled paper, does not help.
One of their guys reassured me that he knew how to put up a fence with a gate. Which is true, if you don't care that the fence is not plumb, straight or level. When he tackled hanging the garden gate he took two days. Putting in a garden gate is, at most, a two hour job. Two. Days. At $120 per day. $240 for a gate that any English speaking handyman could have installed for $50.
The gate never worked properly and we had to tear it out and replace it. We have had similar problems with tile installation, landscape cloth installation (I never knew how badly that could be screwed up, until Centro's workers set to), etc., etc.
Some of the crews are honest and competent, but others... the following items that went missing from my home when -- and only when -- Centro workers were present:
1. Six (6) sheets of decorative marble mosaic tile, valued at $12 per sheet
2. Three (3) sets of locking channel clamp pliers
3. One (1) light detail magnetized tack hammer
4. One (1) 100' garden tape measure and reel
5. Two (2) 12" spirit levels
6. Two (2) carpenter's speed squares
7. One (1) bag expensive tinted tile grout that was destroyed by being mixed for mortar (even though the label was in English AND Spanish)
8. One (1) $600 cherry wood bathroom vanity that Centro's man painted with stain so heavily that it looks like a cheap painted piece, even though I explained I wanted it "transparenté" and demonstrated that he was to wipe the stain off, so that the grain would show through.
Centro does NO screening and makes no promises about their workers. Therefore, if you want to fill a dumpster or move gravel from point "A" to point "B" and are willing to take extensive security measures and pay for translators, fine. Other than that, I can not, in good conscience recommend Centro's workers.
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