Volunteers praise build experience, thriving Fuller Center communities in El Salvador The Fuller Center for Housing’s work in El Salvador has taken off in recent years thanks to an influx of financial support from Fuller donors and outstanding local leadership from our partners at Gente Ayudando Gente (People Helping People) — notably its determined leader, […]
About this time last year, The Fuller Center for Housing’s building partner on the ground in El Salvador — People Helping People (Gente Ayudando Gente) — was just beginning to get to know the families of Nuevo Cuscatlán who were living in pitiful shacks resting precariously on muddy hillside. They were being selected to partner […]
Gente Ayudando Gente, the Fuller Center’s local building partner in Ahuachapán, El Salvador, has plenty of hard-working families to put into homes. Thanks to the new team of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and New Story Charity —along with Fuller Center supporters — these transformations can begin taking place sooner than families ever imagined possible. […]
UPDATE: Mother who considered sneaking into United States talks about how getting a Fuller Center home helped her avoid making such a desperate journey. Click here to learn more. Reasonable people — and sometimes unreasonable people — can disagree on the issue of illegal immigration to the United States. Get 20 folks in […]
Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and New Story Charity are teaming up to fund a new community of Fuller Center homes in the El Salvadoran community of Ahuachapán, a rural community mostly consisting of coffee farming families where The Fuller Center first began working in 2014. Already this year, New Story has backed the […]
When you think about fighting diseases and improving health outcomes, housing might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but inadequate housing is one of the primary causes of disease, illness outbreaks and other health problems around the world. In this podcast recorded July 14, 2016, Fuller Center for Housing Director of Field […]
In January, The Fuller Center for Housing announced a new partnership with crowdfunding experts New Story Charity — a partnership that would begin this year with a project to move 90 families from the rural slum village of Monseñor Romero in Nuevo Cuscátlan, El Salvador, into simple, decent houses. This is New Story’s first experience with The […]
Fuller Center President David Snell held his first Facebook Live video chat and talked about recent happenings with the affordable housing ministry — including the upcoming Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure from Seattle to D.C.; the partnership with New Story Charity that is producing great results in El Salvador and is now under way in Bolivia; […]
