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Puerto Rico Pleasures

“The poorest of the poor,” they told us. We agreed to go with MDS to Puerto Rico to help roof houses that had been damaged by Hurricane Marie over seven years ago.  I went thinking that our accommodations would not be up to the standards of many...

Raising walls—and volunteer numbers

There’s a house—and a lot of hope—going up at the local 4-H Hall in Wichita, Kansas. Groups of volunteers from Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS), in town for a special 75th anniversary celebration being held at the Ridgepoint Church, were...

Home for Christmas in West Virginia

Two families are home for Christmas in West Virginia, thanks to Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) volunteers. On Dec. 2, home dedications—one in Branchland and another in Maysel, officially opened the doors to new dwellings for flood survivors...

Love inspires recovery

Harry Davis remembers the day water rushed over the road, like a dam breaking upstream from his house. It was July 10, 2023, and a devastating flood hit central Vermont. Davis sheltered in place as his cellar and the main floor of his house flooded....

“Like another world”

A nineteenth century house stands two storeys high on the banks of the Winooski River. Numa Haase, the homeowner of nearly four decades, always wanted to live on a river. “[When] you go down to the river, you don’t hear the noise of the...

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