Sponsoring a family’s home is an attainable and life-changing endeavor for a group or individual If your church class, civic group, school club, company or any other kind of organization is looking for an uplifting project that can be unifying for your team and at the same time life-changing for someone else, consider raising money […]
Zenon Colque: Building a community of success stories & sharing “the real Peru” Since it first began building homes in 2009 in the dry, highland area of La Florida, The Fuller Center for Housing of Peru has been a favorite of Fuller Center Global Builders teams. Volunteers have fallen in love with the country, its […]
Desperate family persists through problems, pandemic to get new home in La Florida, Peru Yuddy and Wilfredo Portillo left the crowded streets and expensive rents of Lima, Peru with their two sons — 4-year-old Bryan and baby Bastian — for the community of La Florida, where they had a little piece of land and a […]
GLOBAL HOME CHALLENGE Courtney Fields HAMPTON,GEORGIA Courtney first got involved with The Fuller Center in college when her church group in Columbus, Georgia, went on a Global Builders trip to Peru in 2017. In 2018, she was an intern on the Fuller Center Bike Adventure and is now the Adventure’s coordinator. Join the Global Home […]
(Photo: Countryside Mennonite Church — located near Waterloo, Ontario, Canada — sent 68 volunteers to work in Nicaragua in February 2014, a trip that put the Fuller Center Global Builders program over the 2,000-volunteer mark. On Feb. 15, a 65-volunteer team will leave on a Global Builders trip to work with us in La Florida, […]
Dalton, Ohio’s Ryan Pierce recently joined a Fuller Center Global Builders trip to Peru, where he helped volunteers build with a family in the thriving community of La Florida. It was an experience that changed his life, and he has used his talents to produce a video encouraging others to give of themselves and have […]
(Photo: Legacy Build volunteers Zenon Colque of Lima, Peru, and Monica Cardenas of Bogota, Colombia) BEAUREGARD, Ala. — When total volunteer hours are tallied after the conclusion of the 2019 Millard Fuller Legacy Build, that number is expected to set a record for volunteer hours at a single Fuller Center event — by a long […]
Fuller Center Bicycle Adventure coordinator Connor Ciment’s years of service with The Fuller Center for Housing are drawing to a close, but he’s going out with a bang. Today, he sat down with Fuller Center President David Snell to talk about his most recent adventure — not on a bicycle but on a Fuller Center […]
