March 13, 2020 These ladies from Wittenberg University spent the week working on our homes with us this week. Our homeowners are still smiling!!! Thank you ladies! Photo Credit to Chris Johnson from Fuller Center for Housing
March 24, 2020 Now that Harris and Galveston Counties are under shelter in place orders, I will not be taking too many more photos. Perhaps some exterior photos, but not any interiors. However, there are still many to be posted, so enjoy! These photos are of the new ReBuild in Texas City. Many groups have
Even though COVID 19 has affected so many, our volunteers this past week kept on going. We had to reprioritize work plans for our homes, in order to keep everyone as safe as possible. For our older and immunocompromised homeowners, this meant switching up to working on the exterior of the homes, as opposed to
March 21, 2020 We started roof repairs on Miss Dorothy’s home in Bayboro NC (20 miles east of New Bern in Pamlico County) today. Yesterday we moved her furnishings, etc to a storage container so we can finish the interior work quicker. The interior is in very bad shape. We are having to rely more
March 20, 2020 As most of you know, I don’t get the opportunity to spend quality time with volunteer groups very often. Well, this week was one of those weeks when I did. And it was with one of my favorite groups—OK, I don’t have favorite groups but if I did Salem LC would be
March 18. 2020 Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders celebrated another dedication of a house destroyed by Hurricane Harvey in La Marque, TX. Some may remember the posts with photos of when the house was demolished, the pile of rubble, the installation of the piers and beams, and the ongoing progress made over the last several months.
March 17, 2020 With the fear of COVID 19 spreading everywhere, these volunteers continue to work hard to ensure our homeowners have a safe place to live. If you look closely, you will even notice someone very familiar helping another non-profit lift a wall. Toni Karam Ratliff, Family Partner FCDR
March 16, 2020 This week’s team has really touched our hearts. We had advised the Salem Disaster Response team (Hermantown, MM) that we understood if they decided to head back home. Instead, they were all in agreement that This is where they needed to be today, and will continue working on our homes tomorrow. We
March 7, 2020 Some progress and ‘regress’ photos from a home in Pamlico County NC (or what I now refer to as the crawfish home due to crawfish in the crawlspace). When I first estimated the house repairs I couldn’t get to the attic on one end of the house so I assumed it didn’t
March 12, 2020 We had a great group of young adults from Illinois State University this week. At Raleigh Street, they were getting exterior of the house painted and the crawl space insulated. At Pleasant Hill, they got a lot of the exterior of the house repainted to black and white, got most of the