The Catholic Standard caught up with a group of 19 volunteers from St. Francis Builds — a project of St. Camillus Parish in Silver Spring, Maryland — to hear about their experience working the Fuller Center Global Builders in the area of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, where they found there is much work left to do […]
The Bluff Country Reader newspaper of Spring Valley, Minn., recently chatted with Jolene Hartwick, Joyce Iverson, and Terri Benson — three local women who were part of an 18-person Fuller Center Global Builders team that journeyed to the hurricane-ravaged island of Puerto Rico in January. They talked about the kind of work they did, how […]
The Catholic News Service has an extensive new report on a team of 18 volunteers from St. Francis Builds, a program based in St. Camillus Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, who recently spent a week working with The Fuller Center for Housing’s new covenant partner in Puerto Rico through the Global Builders program. The […]
Though it was more than six months ago that Hurricane Maria bashed Puerto Rico as a strong Category 4 storm, many parts of the island look like they were just struck yesterday. More than 100,000 residents remain without electricity. One of the hardest-hit areas was the southeastern portion of the island, across the mid-island mountains […]
