CREW, Community Rebuilding Ecumenical Workforce, is a local faith inspired agency helping Hendry and Glades County residents recover from and prepare for disaster. CREW partners with the Volunteer Florida Foundation (you can check them out at their website http://www.volunteerfloridafoundation.org/ ) and the Florida Disaster Recovery Fund (http://www.flahurricanefund.org/ ) to help our community strengthen site built homes. Together we are working with is My Safe Florida Home (http://www.mysafefloridahome.com/ ) with a program designed by the state of Florida to strengthen homes against future storms. Certified inspectors will look assess seven points in the home such as improving roof deck attachments, creating a secondary water barrier to prevent water intrusion, improving the survivability of the roof covering, bracing gable-ends in the roof framing, reinforcing roof-to-wall connections, and upgrading exterior wall opening protections, and upgrading exterior doors. My Safe Florida Home is offering free wind inspections by certified hurricane wind inspectors. Inspectors will then be able to determine what is needed to make the home stronger. In order to qualify for this program you must own your site-built home and qualify as low income. Mobile homes, manufactured homes, multi family homes, apartments, and businesses do not qualify. We have already helped residents in our area; check out these pictures of our first completed homes.
If you are interested in the program, you may contact Tony or Hilda at (863) 983-2390 during normal business hours, or contact us by email at crewheadquarters@hotmail.com . You can also check us out on our website, http://home.earthlink.net/~hurricanerecovery/ our blogsite http://huricanerecovery.blogspot.com/ and on you tube http://www.youtube.com/user/CREWInc .
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