Long-term volunteers arrived in Jennings, Louisiana the week of October 9 to open up the unit after being closed since the end of March. Our goal is to build five new houses by next spring for persons affected by hurricanes Laura and Delta. Phil...
Seven new volunteers arrived on Sunday night from Oregon, Virginia and Pennsylvania. They will be here for the next two weeks. After the required FEMA orientation on Monday morning, they headed to Candy and Orin Everitt’s house to continue the roof...
Another week of helping homeowners has come and gone and much has been accomplished again. We had a much smaller group this week which spanned most of North America, from New York to California to Manitoba! They, along with the long-term volunteers,...
What an amazing week occurred in Crisfield! Between October 7 & 8, we had 28 volunteers arrive from Carlisle,Pa primarily from the Meeting House. Their mission was to frame and roof a house in a week. Saturday afternoon, initial prep work at...
Week two found the Guam volunteers watching Typhoon Bolaven threaten the island instead of working on our project. We worked Monday morning and then had to wait until Friday to continue. Thankfully the eye of the storm passed by about 30 miles north...
In May of 2023, Typhoon Mawyar produced 140 mile an hour winds and 28.42 inches of rain on the island of Guam. Candy and her husband Orin had their home severely damaged by this storm. FEMA is asking MDS to focus on getting a room or two in...
Greetings from Crisfield, MD, The Crisfield site has reopened with the volunteers serving for the next four weeks. Keith and Janet Graybill from Pa arrived to serve as Project Director and Office Manager. Don O’Neil from Alberta, Canada...
During the week of Oct 2-6 we had 14 volunteers who came from Indiana. These were young people who worked hard and also played hard. They were fun to watch as they interacted together. We worked on 3 homes this week. Mary’s home was started back in...
Long-term volunteers this week include Jack Odhiambo, Inko Ndlovu-Mathuthu, Eric Douglas and Janis Ott, the four year-long volunteers; David King, crew leader; Lois Wenger, head cook; Don and Rachel Horst, project director and office manager. Our...