Brittani Howel, one of our Global Builders’ team members shares her great experience in Armenia with Fuller Center for Housing Armenia: We came as strangers. We came as volunteers: the Mercer Service Scholars, the FCHA’s first university group. We came as odars — as non-Armenians, as outsiders. Only one of our group of fourteen students […]
The Congo River is the deepest and the ninth longest on the planet. It is the lifeline for a nation in which roads and railways are lacking. Goods are shipped, food is caught, clothes are washed, people bathe, and all sorts of wonderful acts happen on the river. It is the source of life for […]
Forty-four years before the Belgians colonized the Congo in 1908, Folliot Sandford Pierpoint wrote the lyrics for what became the song “For the Beauty of the Earth.” I thought of this hymn when I saw the houses made with earth blocks in the Congo. I love earth buildings. I was first introduced to earth block […]
The Fuller Center for Housing has no creeds. We are not a political organization. We are not “left” nor “right” as the terms are used in our media. We build houses and in doing so nurture the development of healthier communities. So it is with some trepidation that I share some experiences in the Congo […]
I started doing mission trips with my youth group in 1997 when my daughter was 12. We really enjoyed the work and the friendships of those week trips each summer. In 2006, a fellow adult trip leader asked if I’d like to join her on a mission trip to Armenia where her son was a […]
One dozen volunteers from the USA and Australia completed 9 1/2 days on the worksite at La Florida, Peru, preparing three homes to install roofs, and beginning another home. The people in this dusty little village love people from the Fuller Center. Our Peruvian host Zenon Colque and the Fuller Center teams have made it […]
Over spring break I was once again fortunate enough to travel down to El Salvador with a team of ten other University of Cincinnati Students in Serve Beyond Cincinnati, a UC service club. During the weekend we were free to explore all the sights and sounds of El Salvador, from exploring Mayan ruins, to zip […]
Faces and Images from the Haiti Build March 26-April 2, 2011. This team of 11 people from Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Washington State came together for a week to work on the duplex being built in Haiti. Trusses were built and installed on the roof, porches were added to the front and back of […]
