200,000 homes damaged or destroyed, hundreds of thousands killed

Poorest nation in western hemisphereNo previous Fuller Center presenceGreat need, great interest in helping…but

how to begin?

International “experts”Give funds to big guys

(governments, huge non-profits, etc.)

Focus on disposable relief items

85% of housing funds ($1.2 billion) spent on temporary shelter

Immediate relief but long-term suffering (when the spotlight has faded)

Local practitionersWork through the meekFocus on permanent

recovery itemsAll our funds spent

working for permanent shelter

Nothing overnight, but new homes progressing within first year

Our Response

2 Covenant Partners One named Grace Fuller Center, formed as a partnership

with Grace International, a Haitian-founded and Haitian-led non-profit

One organized by our El Salvador country leader Mike Bonderer, but carried out by Haitians near Port-au-Prince (the capital)

Combined, the Fuller Center has completed 73 homes in Haiti at an all-inclusive cost of $420,000

Cost-efficiency and permanent solutions Jobs created A sustainable community being constructed by Grace

Fuller Center

We learned from the Armenians the true story about so-called temporary homes: We’re still working to eliminate them in Armenia 20 years later.

For the $1.2 billion cost of temporary homes, proportionally speaking, the Fuller Center would have rebuilt all 200,000 homes. Instead, only a few thousand in all of Haiti have been rebuilt.

All temporary relief expenditures are not bad, but the ratio is badly skewed

Bias towards temporary is fueled by… desire to produce big numbers quickly fear of undertaking construction (risk-aversion), bias against smaller projects (50 homes rather than

10,000 homes) Simplicity of the solution (handing out buckets vs

community development)