Fuller Center for Housing founder Millard Fuller was born and raised in Lanett, Alabama. Adjacent to that city are Valley, Alabama, and West Point, Georgia. Two new houses are going up in each of those communities with work having started this month and completion slated for next month. Dozens of volunteers in Valley from First […]
(Photo: Homeowners Rodney and Carmen Lott with the Chattahoochee Fuller Center Project’s Kim Roberts and Robin Pierre at Friday’s dedication.) Just as Rodney and Carmen Lott tried to explain on Friday afternoon how the nearly complete new home just a few steps away from them would change their lives, they were interrupted. A florist was […]
It’s been brutally hot for the dozens of local volunteers working on the new home for Carmen and Rodney Lott in Valley, Alabama, this week. You can imagine what the heat must feel like for house leaders Barry and Amy Stuck of Pennsylvania. Or, you can read Wayne Clark’s outstanding article in the Valley Times-News […]
Last month, volunteers turned an empty lot in West Point, Georgia, into a standing house with walls, a shingled roof, windows and doors. It was phase one of a two-week effort. Phase two begins this Monday as volunteers from East Alabama Medical Center-Lanier work all week to apply the finishing touches to a home for […]
(Photo, from left: Homeowner partner/volunteer Robin Pierre, homeowner partner and Army veteran Carla Ross and Chattahoochee Fuller Center Project Executive Director Kim Roberts with K’Hairi outside the Ross’ new home in West Point, Georgia.) K’Hairi has been going in and out of hospitals all eight of his years, just a fact of life with sickle-cell […]
When 86-year-old Bertha Moore learned she had been selected to partner with The Fuller Center for Housing to build a new home at September’s Millard Fuller Legacy Build in Valley, Alabama, she was thankful to be in line for a safe home to replace the problematic home where she had lived for the past 62 […]
Three new homes and one major renovation were dedicated on Friday — the final day of the 2016 Millard Fuller Legacy Build in Valley, Alabama. In this report from WRBL-TV, homeowner partner LaTonya Whitlow talks about her week of building, while 16-year-old Jasmine Luedi discusses what it meant to spend a week of building to […]
The lots where volunteers are building three new homes for families during this week’s Millard Fuller Legacy Build in Valley, Alabama, were eyesores not long ago. They once were home to dilapidated trailers and then to weeds. Now, three beautiful new homes are rising in the hot Alabama sun. This build was made possible in […]
