Monday, March 17, 2008

Volunteers build new home and repair old ones from Hurricane Wilma!

Volunteers continue to come from accross the country to rural South Florida to volunteer their time to help rebuild and repair homes.

CRWRC has been here non stop since February, sending volunteers 5 days a week every week, however, we had to say farewell to them this week. We were able to show them our appreciate however for all they have done. They originally canvassed our area and provided CREW with damage assessments right after the storm in 2005. Since then they have sent funding and volunteers to help us continue our mission. Pictured here are volunteers from CRWRC that came this month to help repair homes not only in our area but in the Western Palm Beach area as well. This is a picture of our director handing them a plaque of appreciation for all they have done.

St. Lukes Lutheran Church from Washington State came as well, they came and helped finish the outside of our rebuild (see story in previous posts), and while waiting on inspections and local contractors to catch up with electrical and plumbing, they helped repair Hurricane damage in Brenda's home.


Lutheran Layman's League from North Dakota came to work on the rebuild, but do to problems with contractors they instead helped repair Brenda L , Raphael, and Brenda J's homes.









Covenant United Methodist Church from Port Orange Florida came and helped repair Brenda's home.














Once again, CREW thanks its partners, CRWRC, UMCOR, PDA, UCC, and The Rotary who gave us the financial backing to hire and pay staff members, buy supplies and manage volunteers this month. We also thank our partners who help us host the volunteers by feeding them and providing them a place to stay. God Bless the First United Methodist Church of Clewiston and Moorehaven, Community Presbyterian Church, and the local Pentecostal Church for housing and feeding our volunteers.

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