Come to the GALA!

C.R.E.W. INC.
cordially invites you to a
"A FORMAL AFFAIR"

Come join the CREW Staff and Executive Board Members in acknowledging and showing their appreciation to their major contributors
and raise funds to help continue their mission of helping rebuild the communities within
Hendry and Glades Counties

Saturday, the Twenty -First Day of April
Two Thousand and Seven

Clewiston Inn
108 Royal Palm Ave
6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

All White Attire is Preferred

$75 per Plate or $350 per Table
All proceeds will be donated to
Community Rebuilding Ecumenical Workforce

Please RSVP by April 1, 2007
PLEASE CONTACT MS. AKIVA JOHNSON
@ 863-983-2390 OR
CREWHEADQUARTERS@HOTMAIL.COM

CREW helps reduce the number of families living in FEMA trailers in Hendry and Glades Counites.

CREW has been helping Hendry and Glades Counties reduce the number of FEMA trailers the residents are living in. We have helped get the number from over 200 to 126. We made referral for these families to other agencies that could help them, and we located donors who would help fund either their work they needed done, or materials for the volunteers we have recruited. We have been organizing the Long Term Recovery Meetings for these counties and working with local agencies that are ready to jump in and help (if they have the resources and if the families can qualify for the services). We have been working with Volunteer Florida Foundation who is funding the case management for this project!

Chalo Nitka Festival in Moorehaven

CREW staff held an information booth at the Chalo Nitka Festival in Moorehaven to let people who are still trying to recover from Hurricane Wilma know that we can help them. We also worked on letting people know about how to mitigate their home and make it stronger for future storms, what preparations to make as well. In addition we let them know about the volunteer opportunities available to them to help our residents.

February brings valentines and more volulnteers to rural south Florida

A retired couple from Michigan came and hung interior doors for our rebuild (which is for a retired couple) and installed a closet system that they purchased themselves for the family in Clewiston. They also painted and installed flooring throughout the home. Later another retired couple from Kentucky came and joined the party by installing kitchen cabinets, painting and installing doors as well. Later in February a retired couple from Maine came and worked on these same projects at this home.

Art, our lone volunteer from Michigan that has been here for months continued to help us on several projects. He helped various families by installing doors, windows, a vanity, and skirting. He worked all over Hendry and Glades counties.

Grace Ministries returned again in February from Cape Coral sending three volunteers. They love us so much he just can't stop volunteering their time to help families recover. They worked on one home in Pioneer, installing a ceiling, and framing a bay window. They return every month almost.

A group of freezing Lutherans traveled here from Seattle Washington. They worked on several small projects in Clewiston, Montura and Harlem replacing doors, installing sub flooring, laying tile, repairing household items, cleaning the stove and refrigerator, finishing drywall, and prepping for painting.

Another group from North Dakota came, this group laughed when we apologized for the cold 30 degree weather we were experiencing. They let us know that it was 30 below at home and they felt like it was summer weather. This group of 11 volunteers calling themselves the Lutheran Laymen's League worked on 3 roofs. This same week a group of 7 came from a Methodist church in Manassass Virgina worked on two roofs. Also this week a group of 20 volunteers worked on several roofs, tile, sanding and painting ceilings, and replacing sub flooring.

A Methodist church in Pompano Beach and a Presbyterian church in Plantation sent volunteers to hang drywall, giving up their Saturday to work with us.

A family of volunteers from Ohio and Maryland were the last ones to come in February. One of them often writes articles about us (over the past year) and loved what she was hearing so she came to help us out herself and brought her family with her. They worked installing drywall for a young family with three small children (one an infant) whose father is actively going through chemotherapy trying to battle his cancer.