The Sewer Children of Bucharest to Benefit from Collaborative Housing Project by Millard Fuller's New Organization

Vulnerable young mothers and their children who huddle in the sewers of Bucharest, Romania, will finally have a safe place to lay their heads as a result of a project of Birmingham, Alabama-based Make Way Partners being funded by Millard Fullers new organization, The Fuller Center for Housing.

AMERICUS, GA (PRWEB) July 20, 2005 -- A housing project to benefit the sewer children of Bucharest is the first collaboration of the Make Way Partners and the Fuller Center, started by housing pioneers and Habitat for Humanity founders Millard and Linda Fuller.

We are thrilled to be working with Make Way Partners as they fight human trafficking by working to eliminate one of its major causes -- homelessness," said Fuller.

As a result of a $25,000 grant from the Fuller Center, Make Way Partners will build four apartments on the 2nd floor of their existing day-shelter in Bucharest that provides daytime refuge for sewer children. The transitional housing units will house homeless families, and provide 18 months of counseling and job training.

There are tens of thousands of orphaned, abandoned, and abused children who escape the winter cold of Eastern Europe by living in the underground sewer system of the Romanian capital," said Kimberly Smith, director of Make Way Partners. And a lack of housing breeds human sex trafficking victims."

The young women and children are easy prey for the sex traffickers who use sewers as recruiting ground for their international sex trade. These mothers will do anything to have a home for themselves and their children, and human sex traffickers promise them a 'home. This center will offer them a new life for themselves and their children," Smith added.

Make Way Partners is a Christian organization committed to preventing and combating human trafficking in two regions where it proliferates: Eastern Europe and Africa. Kimberly Smith is a former Vice President of Marketing in the banking and insurance sectors.

The Fuller Center for Housing serves as a companion to low-income housing providers and Habitat for Humanity affiliates by providing funds and other support to advance their work toward ending homelessness around the world.

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