Catholic Worker House seeks funding for additional house

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Brandy Harn, right serves up food to Rick Johnson at the Catholic Worker House Dec. 28 in Waterloo. (Courtney Collins)

1 hour ago • By Christinia Crippes

WATERLOO | Fran Fuller hopes for the day when everyone has a home and those in need can turn to their neighbors for a place to stay.

Until then, though, she works as one of four full-time volunteers at the Catholic Worker House that takes in men, women and families who are in need of a place to stay. And rather than see the need decrease, Fuller says they find themselves in need of more space.

That’s why the organization, founded in Waterloo 34 years ago, has launched the “need more room at the inn” project to raise funds to be able to buy a house near its other two locations in order to serve a growing population of homeless. To meet that need, they’re hoping to raise $45,000 as soon as possible to be able to purchase the home.

So far, about one-third has been raised through a fundraising letter distributed to the about 600 people who are on the not-for-profit, nondenominational Catholic Worker House mailing list.

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