http://fullercenternwla.org Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:32:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Students from Bossier Parish Community College’s Student Associated General Contractors Chapter joined with the Northwest Louisiana Fuller Center for Housing to build two houses in two weeks. Throughout the semester students in the Construction Technology and Management program learned the principals of construction. However, this was the first time they got ... http://fullercenternwla.org/bpcc-students-help-build-new-homes Consider donating $5, $50 or $500 in honor of The Fuller Center's 5th anniversary and help us build a better world, one house at a time. Volunteers from as far away as Idaho and Minnesota will join with local residents to build two new houses in Shreveport in conjunction ... http://fullercenternwla.org/fuller-center-to-begin-new-houses-as-part-of-fifth-anniversary-celebration On Tuesday, Yolanda Braziel didn't have a roof over her head, literally. Her four-bedroom home she is helping to build in Shreveport's Allendale neighborhood is taking form quickly and already has walls, a roof and a concrete floor. The house is one of two being built by The Fuller Center for Housing ... http://fullercenternwla.org/fuller-house-builds-42nd-home-in-allendale AMERICUS, GA -- The Fuller Center for Housing, a non-profit house building organization based in Georgia, is celebrating its fifth anniversary this month with a special 5-house build in Louisiana -- back to the site where it launched its first major project nearly five years ago following Hurricane Katrina. The "building ... http://fullercenternwla.org/fuller-center-celebrates-5th-anniversary-builds-homes-for-hurricane-katrina-evacuees Two houses in Allendale Two Shreveport families will be getting new homes thanks to The Fuller Center for Housing. Volunteers and college students from Idaho, Minnesota and Texas will be working alongside the families to construct the homes in the Allendale neighborhood starting today. The project coincides with the Fifth Anniversary Celebration ... http://fullercenternwla.org/fuller-center-to-build-2-houses-in-allendale SHREVEPORT, La., March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This year marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It is also the fifth anniversary of The Fuller Center for Housing, a non-profit that jump-started its affordable housing ministry in December 2005 by building houses for low-income hurricane victims who fled to ... http://fullercenternwla.org/hurricane-katrina-five-years-later-special-tri-city-build-marks-nearly-five-years-of-recovery-efforts-by-the-fuller-center-for-housing A building that's been vacant for years will soon reopen its doors. Northwest Louisiana's Fuller Center for Housing plans to turn what use to be a liquor store into a neighborhood grocery store. Allendale community members tell Nbc 6 News the closet grocery store is about ten miles from their ... http://fullercenternwla.org/new-grocery-store-in-allendale Ms Delisa Robinson was working off shore when her family evacuated from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Everything that her and her son owned was destroyed. Her family and her son resided in a shelter in Shreveport and she joined them about a month later from Memphis, Tenn. ... http://fullercenternwla.org/delisa-robinson Ms Yolanda Braziel an independent single mother of 7 working to provide for her family. When her place of employment caught on fire. Financially and emotionally devastated, she was forced to move her family into her deceased grandmother’s vacant and vandalized house. Unable to make the necessary ... http://fullercenternwla.org/yolanda-braziel A local Shreveport woman is getting ready to receive a big gift. In December NBC 6 News introduced you to Yolanda Braziel who is a single mother of seven. Her home was in ruins until several community members and businesses stepped up and made major repairs. Now Braziel's getting something she ... http://fullercenternwla.org/single-mother-of-seven-awaits-a-lifelong-dream