Fuller Center for Housing
The Fuller Center for Housing was born at Koinonia Farm, the birthplace of
Habitat for Humanity, in the spring of 2005. After 29 years of service to the poor,
Millard and
Linda Fuller suddenly found themselves without a platform to continue their dream of eliminating poverty housing. So together with a small group of friends, they founded The Fuller Center.
The mission of The Fuller Center for Housing is a simple one: to witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ by providing support to organizations working to provide decent housing for people in need around the world. Unashamedly Christian and enthusiastically ecumenical, The Fuller Center seeks to share the Gospel messages of love and service. It seeks to work as a companion, in Christian harmony, with low-income housing providers and Habitat for Humanity affiliates by providing funds and other support to advance their important work.
The need for decent shelter is great. The United Nations estimates that over a billion people around the world live in substandard housing. The Fullers founded Habitat for Humanity with the simple, if audacious, goal of eliminating poverty housing. The organization they founded and built has made remarkable progress towards that goal, providing decent homes for a million of the world's poor. But that success is dwarfed by the work that remains to be done, and through The Fuller Center, Millard Fuller's remarkable entrepreneurial, fund raising and motivational skills will continue to serve that labor of love.
Shreveport, Louisiana
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Volunteers from Pennsylvania and Wisconsin putting up walls on the first of three houses for Katrina evacuees in Shreveport, LA |
The Fuller Center has committed to build 60 new ownership houses for
Katrina evacuees in Shreveport, many of which will be built in the Allendale neighborhood. Additional homes will be built for non-evacuee Shreveport families. The City is working to provide sufficient lots to significantly impact the neighborhood and, through its consultants, Morgan Hill Sutton & Mitchell Architects, is assisting with the development of an overall community redevelopment plan. The housing, while remaining true to the concepts of simple, decent and affordable, will be designed to provide an attractive and architecturally diverse urban landscape. Faith Fuller, the daughter of Millard and Linda Fuller, along with videographer Scott Crain, has produced a
7-minute video of the house-building project for Katrina evacuees who have decided to make their home in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Nepal
Thousands of miles and centuries of progress away, a peaceful people in southern [Nepal] face a different tragedy. In the Siraha District in southern Nepal, a village of 100 homes burned completely to the ground. Families live in makeshift thatched huts that are highly susceptible to fire during the dry season. Too many women and infants burn to death in their own homes. A plan has been developed to build a simple house of earthen blocks with a cement-based stucco roof for those 100 families. The houses are small but they are safe. And the entire cost to build one of these homes is $750.
Romania
In a project started in mid-2005, The Fuller Center for Housing â€" in conjunction with Make Way Partners â€" provided funds to shelter vulnerable families living in the sewers of Bucharest, [Romania].
Macon, Georgia
Lighthouse Mission works to help released convicts successfully reenter society. They operate a facility, the Spring Street After Care Home, which provides transitional housing to their clients. With funding from The Fuller Center, Lighthouse Mission was able to renovate this structure, renewing it as a home for the former prisoners who are working to restore their lives.
Americus, Georgia
Both The Fuller Center for Housing and Habitat for Humanity were born at Koinonia Farm. The first Habitat-style homes were built there in the late 60's, and many of these houses are now in need of repair. Through its Heart to Heart program, the folks at Koinonia are assisting homeowners in making those repairs. Using grants from The Fuller Center, Koinonia has repaired nine homes, doing everything from replacing roofs to repairing breaker boxes. This work is helping extend the lives of the homes so that they can continue to bless the families that live in them.
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