Losing 'Home'

Hear what it was like for Maria and Marco Peña, whose home was destroyed by the devasting flood waters associated with Hurricane Harvey, in 2017. Lidia connects with the family and talks about what it’s like lose your home, a feeling she experienced, viewers learn, when she entered a refugee camp in Trieste, Italy at the age of ten.

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Maria Peña and her daughter Gracie Velasquez describe the night of Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

Maria and Marco Peña's Houston, TX, home was destroyed by the devasting floodwaters associated with Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Lidia connects with the family and talks about what it’s like losing your home, a feeling she experienced when she entered a refugee camp in Trieste, Italy at the age of ten.

View photos of the Peña family, and Team Rubicon who helped them rebuild their home.

Since its inception, Team Rubicon has supplied thousands of volunteers and donated over a billion hours of service in hundreds of disaster zones around the world. Team Rubicon, a non-profit, was co-founded by Jake Wood who spent four years of service in Iraq and Afghanistan as a combat sniper in the Marines. Back from the war, he felt lost without a clear mission and purpose.

When Jake heard about the devastating earthquake in Haiti, he organized a team of veterans, including fellow marine and close friend Clay Hunt, to fly down to help. Shortly after, Hunt took his own life. It was at that moment when Wood’s mission became clear: he would help veterans redefine their purpose and support their transition back to civilian life.

The team comes to the rescue of Maria and Marco Peña, and helps them to rebuild their Houston home.