Fuller house breaks ground on 16th home
Tyson employee heard about opportunity through Project R.I.S.E.
By Jessica Breger Special to the Monett Monthly
The Monett Area Fuller House Center welcomed the community to join in breaking ground on House No. 16.
The planning of this home began less than a year ago when House No. 15 had not even been finished.
The location for House No. 16 had already been selected by the time they began the groundbreaking for House No. 15 last year.
This year, the community came together to begin a home for local resident Asia Yost and her family.
As an employee at Tyson Foods, Yost first learned about Fuller through her participation in the Project R.I.S.E. program in partnership with Tyson Foods which suggested to her by Tyson’s Chaplain Rebekkah Mahl.
The R.I.S.E. program is an educational program focusing on financial, personal, and educational skills to help people move toward self-sufficiency.
“I was at work walking down the hallway and Rebecca stopped me and she said, ‘Look at this. There’s a new class that we’re going to do, the R.I.S.E. class, I think you’d really benefit from it,’ Yost said. “I was skeptical at first, but I stuck it out. I was the only one in my class.”
Yost and her children, Aiden, Ezra, Leo and Skylar, broke ground on their new home surrounded community as representatives of Fuller House, Tyson and the city of Monett gathered to kick-off the project.
The non-profit organization helps to build homes for families to provide adequate and affordable housing for local families through volunteer work and zero interest home loans.
Qualifying families are those whose income may not allow them to secure a conventional loan, but have a solid work history.
The families work for their no interest loans, however, they help build their own homes. They have to put in two hundred hours of work.
Beginning in 2002 as a Habitat for Humanity affiliate, the organization converted to a Fuller Center in 2023.
To volunteer or seek assistance from the organization, the Monett area Fuller House Center for housing can be reached at 417-235-8437.
