MIAMI, USA – The home-building nonprofit organization The Fuller Center for Housing is traveling to Haiti with a group of aid workers gathered by actor Sean Penn.
Penn gathered the team to fly out to Haiti and is on the ground helping out in the effort. As aid agencies face bottlenecks preventing the delivery of aid, other smaller charities are sending their own supplies via the Dominican Republic.
“I was given Sean Penn’s name and made the necessary connections to be on that plane with some Fuller Center people,” Fuller Center country partner director Michael Bonderer said on the phone in El Salvador.
Despite an unprecedented international response to the disaster, a large majority of Haitians have yet to see any aid as the logistical nightmare of bringing in supplies has complicated the relief effort.
Although the Fuller Center will not be providing direct relief for Haitians, the charity will rebuild homes on a long-term disaster recovery mission.
To volunteer log on to : http://www.fullercenter.org
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jesse henszey
February 25, 2010
you have a very responsible reputation in the disaster housing arena. currently there are about 41,000 katrina trailers that are rotting in storage. congress has disallowed release of these to america citizens for sale because they theorise that they would flood the already soft rv market here in the states. instead of letting these just waste away, how about you get your people to lobby congress to release them to haiti ? this would solve both problems; letting our tax dollars waste away and saturating our travel trailer market here in the states. i would appriciate a responce to this idea. thanks, jess henszey
Joshua Hardin
January 22, 2010
What a beautiful, inspiring story! It is wonderful to hear and observe how those who are in high authority such as Sean Penn are stepping up being the first to set a good example of what we all should aim to do.
Brilliance!