Less than two weeks after volunteers began raising walls on three houses in Beauregard, Alabama, the homes were dedicated Thursday morning in a day full of emotions expressed through beaming smiles, hugs and tears of joy. It was much-needed burst of hope in a community that has been reeling ever since the deadly March 3 […]
After speaking with Chattahoochee Fuller Center Project Executive Director Kim Roberts, The Valley Times-News has a full report on three homes going up next week in tornado-ravaged Beauregard, Alabama, including information about the first three homeowner partners and their experience in the March 3 disaster. The report also includes a look ahead to the 2019 […]
UPDATE: Registration for the 2019 is now open at this link! The rural Alabama community of Beauregard — an unincorporated area of about 10,000 people just east of Auburn — was devastated March 3 by a massive EF-4 tornado that carved a nearly mile-wide path of destruction. It killed 23 people ranging in age from […]
(Craig Threatt of Americus is helping the Wright family build their new home at the 2018 Millard Fuller Legacy Build.) On Monday, we told you about some of the international volunteers who have come from places such as Nicaragua, Peru and Haiti to help Americans build homes at the 2018 Millard Fuller Legacy Build in […]
(Photo: Legacy Build homeowner partners James and Mildred Wright with their sons Joshua (left) and Jeremy) Christian theologian Clarence Jordan — who inspired Millard and Linda Fuller with the partnership principles that drive The Fuller Center for Housing’s success — once wrote: “What the poor need is not charity, but capital; not case workers but […]
(Photo: Haiti’s Geral Joseph with Peru’s Vitaliano Enriquez) Volunteers with the Fuller Center’s Global Builders program have contributed greatly to the home-building efforts in countries around the world — including such places as Haiti, Peru and Nicaragua. Representatives of those three Fuller Center for Housing international partners are in Americus, Georgia, this week helping Americans […]
(Photo: Taneka Miles, 33, — center, with her two older daughters Jasiauna and Tykeria — is one of the homeowner partners for the 2018 Millard Fuller Legacy Build in Americus, Georgia.) When Millard Fuller Legacy Build volunteers wrap up each day of working alongside Taneka Miles in building a new home for her and her […]
By Leah Gernetzke Communications/multimedia specialist A pillow embroidered with the words “life’s uncertain, eat dessert first” rests on a couch in Bob and Judy Hippler’s RV, a cozy, carpeted home on wheels in which the Hipplers travel all over the country. A black and white picture of the couple sits on a coffee table, and […]