1. 200,000 homes damaged or destroyed, hundreds of thousands killed Poorest nation in western hemisphere No previous Fuller Center presence Great need, great interest in helping…but how to begin?

2. World’s Response 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 practitioners Work through the meek Focus on permanent recovery items All our funds spent working for permanent shelter Nothing overnight, but new homes progressing within first year Our Response

3. 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

4. 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)