Millard Fuller Legacy Build 2013

The Trivandrum Fuller Center for Housing, as usual, participated in the Millard Fuller Legacy Build this year, too. Three houses were dedicated on April 30, 2013. The families have decided to move into their dream homes with mixed feelings of hope, confidence and prestige. With this dedication, the TFCH has so far built 18 houses for the low income group of homeless families. The pictures below depict the moments captured on the occasion.

House of Mallika & Manikantan

 

House of Rasalan & Yasoda

 

House of Vincent & Valsala

The April 2013 Team Led by Jim McCracken

A dedicated and committed team led by Jim McCracken, USA arrived at Kelakam, the northern part of Kerala on April 3, 2013. They worked under the banner of Trivandrum Fuller Center for Housing. The team had two sites to work the beneficiary families. They excavated earth, carried building materials like cut bricks and boulders, and completed basement for one house and foundation for the other. The team mingled with the local community so much so that their names were familiar to the local folk. It was for the first time that the people around happened to watch foreign guests come and work for the Fuller Center homeowners.
 

Dave is carrying the cut brick

The homeowner with the TFCH Board chair and treasurer

The US team and Sasi with the homeowner and the TFCH Chairman

The TFCH chair with the team and the host

The TFCH chair, Sasi and the US team

TWO FAMILIES SELECTED IN KELAKAM

Under the Extension of Ministry Scheme, the Trivandrum Fuller Center for Housing (TFCH) has selected two families recommended by the president of the Church Board of the Assembly of God Worship Centre, Kelakam. These two families have been living in rented houses for a very long time and are in real need of their own homes now. A US team led by Jim McCracken has already arrived and begun to work for these two families in the construction of their Fuller homes funded by the TFCH.

Paulose & family in their rented house

Johnson & family in their rented house

The February 2013 Global Build Team

Here are the ten dynamic members of the team, who have worked for three needy homeowners of the Trivandrum Fuller Center for Housing, India, for seven days now. As these ten partners take leave of the Center and the city, they also leave a good deal of memories for all of us to cherish. As always, we feel somewhat nostalgic when we think of missing them, for they have made their presence felt, especially among our homeowner families, during the last few days. 

  

Some more pictures of the second Global Build

The current team is interested more in working than in resting. The members who are above 50  undertake such hard labor as carrying heavy blocks, mixing cement mortar, leveling rugged ground and conveying sand bags. They harbor a very high sense of the dignity of labor, and are prepared to do any kind of work like cleaning the premises, collecting the strewn materials, making tea or coffee etc. A team with a difference, indeed! Their long experience with Habitat for Humanity and Fuller Center on global village missions or global builds has taught them the real worth of their work for the homeowners they work with and for. They enjoy the house they build come up and reach the roof level during the period of their continuous build at a place. If only they could dedicate it, too!

Ramsay, John and Mike at roof concreting work

The trio of John, Ramsay and Mark on the roof

Boots is collecting the sand

Jane is picking the metal (broken stones)

Polly is carrying water to the site

Polly and Meredith with a full pail of water

Leslie is carrying water for cement mortar

The team, the homeowners and the Board at lunch

The team with the chair and the treasurer of the TFCH