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Partners Speak Out: Millard
& Linda Fuller Millard and I were called into a Christian housing ministry starting with founding Habitat for Humanity in 1976 and then The Fuller Center for Housing in 2005. What a joy it has been to help more than a million people achieve decent, safe and affordable housing. However, it wasn't until we met Kimberly and Milton Smith of Make Way Partners that we realized a connection between housing and human sex trafficking. Kimberly explained that one of the primary reasons young women in Eastern Europe and Asia desire to go abroad and work is so they can earn enough money to release their family from poor housing or even homelessness. Conned into believing they will be a nanny or make good money doing housekeeping in hotels, they fall victim to life-threatening slavery or prostitution or both and, tragically, most never return home. Even if we can save only one family from that kind of disaster, that affirms our worldwide goal of eliminating poverty housing that much more. I believe that all dire needs are inter-related. The more people of goodwill can meet housing and other basic needs up front, the less likely an individual or family will fall captive to various evils in the world.
Our hearts have been touched by the situation in Romania where several generations have been forced to live in underground sewers. Now, the terrible genocide that is occurring in Sudan must be addressed in whatever ways possible. Make Way Partners has a bold and courageous program to save and nurture as many women and children as possible that have undergone unbelievable physical and mental trauma. We believe that resources are more than adequate to supply urgent needs if only there is the will and generosity of those with resources to make it happen. I am so pleased to serve as a Make Way Partners board member. Millard and I will continue to support this ministry in any way we can.
Millard and Linda Fuller Founders of Habitat for Humanity and The Fuller Center for Housing
BIOS: For Millard Fuller's full bio - click here. For Linda Fuller's full bio - click here.
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