Up to date Happenings!

Community Rebuilding Ecumenical WorkForce (CREW), Inc.
121 Central Ave (back door)
Clewiston, Florida 33440
(863) 983-2390



CREW has completed a lot of work. We have 245 open cases. We have about 300 cases yet to have assessments. We have closed 66 cases. Volunteer CREWs the past few weeks have worked on 6 homes completing repairs.

This coming week we have four CREWs that will be present. (two are local, VFW and Baptists are local), the other two are Eastlake Untied Methodist Church from Palm Harbor, Florida and the Presbyterian Church from Chestnut Hill, PA. They will be working on 7 homes (tarping) and I debris clean up, 3 more homes replacing drywall, cool ceiling roofs, putting sown tile, carpeting, putting up fence, repairing holes in floor, leveling a porch, and installing fence posts. They will be working in Clewiston, Labelle, Montura, Harlem, and Hookers Point.

We have had $10,00 donated from the Empowerment alliance directly to clients for supplies and services. Café Tropical is providing lunch one day and the Presbyterian Church is donating dinners for one group all week. One local person donated use of truck, power tools were donated, the county donated services, the city donated tarps, the Baptist is providing space for lunch and clean up services, and many of our staff have worked well overtime to help make the next few weeks a success.

The nest week we have Hilliard Presbyterian Church from Ohio being hosted by the Methodist Church. Also 1st Untied Methodist Church of Lakeland will be back to work on house in Glades counties.

The workforce development grant ends the end of this month and we will loose most of our case managers and the two teenagers who have been helping out in the office. We also had $6000 from the community relief fund which we are using to buy supplies.

After a lot of work from local computer geeks, as well as Akiva, Gricel and Stan, we do have our DRD system up and running, Staff are working diligently imputing information from all the cases, closed and open that we have.

We have workers in Labelle, Harlem and Moorehaven with regular office hours at least one day a week. Tuesdays are the day we will have office time in all these places.

In July, we have groups coming from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana.

Wish List

Drills, ladders, copier paper, envelopes, plywood, drywall, volunteer craftsman, volunteers of all kinds, mattresses, a truck, newer computers, office furniture, gas cards, food for volunteers, housing for out of town volunteers, and anything else the Spirit moves you to give!