Eureka Christian Health Outreach, or ECHO, uses volunteers and donors to run a free healthcare clinic for low-income people who have no health insurance. Now, ECHO founders Dan and Suzie Bell, along with Eureka Springs resident Kimberly Clark and Mayor Butch Berry, have turned to that model to build an affordable housing community along Passion Play Road and Highway 62. If you are interested in volunteering or want to sponsor one of the homes, contact ECHO here.
Eureka Springs Organization Turns to Volunteers to Build Affordable Housing Community
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The first eight homes at ECHO Village are going up along Passion Play Road and Highway 62 in Eureka Springs.
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Volunteers from World Mission Builders spent two weeks in Eureka Springs working on the homes at ECHO Village.
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The homes are small and will be concentrated around community spaces, like a garden and a chicken coop.
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The homes will be open to single parents, veterans, seniors and the differently abled.
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A volunteer with World Mission Builders pauses to wave through what will eventually be a wall.
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After the World Mission Builders volunteers left, the homes were shingled and dried-in, but there is still much work to be done before anyone can move in.
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