(Photo of earthquake damage in southwest Haiti provided by Geral Joseph, director of The Fuller Center for Housing of Pignon, Haiti) President David Snell: Haitian families need your hand-up in partnership for successful long-term recovery Donate to the Disaster Recovery Fund Haiti once again has been brought to its knees by a natural disaster, a […]
Another round of earthquake-resistant homes have been dedicated in Nepal, where The Fuller Center for Housing has completed 140 new homes since the devastating quake — bringing the total number of Fuller Center homes in the country to 164. More importantly, these homes stand as examples of how to build safer homes in the mountainous […]
Two years ago today, a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the mountainous country of Nepal, killing more than 9,000 people and reducing tens of thousands of homes to rubble. The Fuller Center for Housing had been working in Nepal for nearly a decade prior to the quake. In fact, at the time, The Fuller Center’s most […]
Seven years ago, a devastating 7.0-magnitude struck Haiti, which already had long been the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Tens of thousands died, and at least 200,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. In its wake, hundreds of millions of dollars from caring individuals and concerned groups flowed in to nonprofits aiming to help Haitians […]
Support disaster recovery in Haiti After a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti in January of 2010, killing more than 200,000 people and destroying about the same amount of homes, the outpouring of support for Haitians was impressive. Millions of Americans, Canadians and others took to their smart phones and computers or whipped out their […]
It was one year ago today that a massive earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter scale rocked the mountainous country of Nepal, killing more than 8,000 people and injuring another 21,000. It also damaged or destroyed more than 800,000 homes. The village of Trishuli, about 30 miles from the quake’s epicenter, was as hard-hit as […]
