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A Fuller Center house restores a family and hope in Abuja, Nigeria

A Fuller Center house restores a family and hope in Abuja, Nigeria

For four years, Nigerian civil servant Sunday Fanoiki lived alone in a deplorable, one-bedroom apartment without a kitchen, without a private bathroom and without his wife and three children. Today, he is the proud owner of a new, Fuller Center home. Transfered in 2003 from Lagos to the capital city, Abuja, Sunday found the expenses […]

Suffolk hosts Habitat founder

Millard Fuller took to the small wooden podium like a preacher to a pulpit. The 74-year-old Alabama native was speaking to an intimate crowd at Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church on Saturday night. His smooth Southern accent was impossible to ignore as he pulled out a Bible and began reading from the third chapter in Hebrews. […]

Millard Fuller to Receive the Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award

Millard Fuller to Receive the Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award

Millard Fuller will be recognized for innovation and humanitarian work at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 20. The Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award recognizes builders who “go the extra mile” by demonstrating a lifetime commitment to making their communities better places to work and live. This year’s award will be presented to […]

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

 He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses. – Proverbs 28:27   I hope the new year is off to a great start for you! Here at the Fuller Center headquarters in Americus, we are rejoicing about the wonderful response we received from […]

Homeless man gets his own place

Tenor Young, 25, who works two jobs and also gives piano lessons, has lived in the basement of Emmanuel Baptist Church on West Broadway since September. But Young, who in the past has been homeless, is ready to move into his newly renovated house on Boston Court in the Shawnee neighborhood. The small, one-story house […]

Millard Fuller listed as Top 30 innovator

Millard Fuller listed as Top 30 innovator

From Hanley Wood By Ann Seltz The Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Awards program, now in its 10th year, will join with BUILDER Magazine’s 30th Anniversary celebration to honor the leading innovators in the home building industry from the past 30 years. Leaders and visionaries who have shaped the home building industry will be honored at a […]

Sign up for the 2nd annual Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure

Sign up for the 2nd annual Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure

Help us raise $200 thousand! The second Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure will hit the road July 10 and arrive at the ocean Aug. 16, 2009, turning last year’s coast-to-coast trip on its head. Cyclists will pedal 1,300 miles down the country, from Benton Harbor, Mich., to Tallahassee, Fla., and work on six to eight Fuller […]