Building Community with Millard Fuller
Program 10 • 29 mins
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Program 10 • 29 mins
CDs available via special order. HumanMedia ®
Listen to excerpt:
The remarkable international effort to build “homes and hope” by marshaling the energies of young people, church communities, and others, is described by Habitat for Humanity founder Millard Fuller.
Hoping to imbue students with values that transcend traditional academic content, many colleges now offer “service learning” programs where students gain valuable real-life experience in efforts to help the community.
With the tightening economy, increased middle class anxiety, home foreclosures and lengthening lines at soup kitchens throughout the United States, more and more and more Americans will be relying on the good will of their neighbors. This documentary examines why people decide to offer their time and money to answer the need.
After nearly forty years of sheltering, serving and training the homeless in Boston, Kathe McKenna reflects on the line between helping people in need and becoming an “enabler” of people who don’t want to improve.
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