Eric Church He is not afraid to dirty his hands in the name of helping a neighbor.
IN a village singer It plans to build dozens of homes in Avery district, North Carolina, for families who left Hurricanes of Hurricane Helena last fall.
“This is an important job because of the great devastation, so we plan to start working in more than our first place to help more families,” said John Blackburn, CEO CEOF CERES AVERY, a church project for a home for Fox News Digital said in Fox News Digital Wednesday. “We hope to have an official revolutionary near Easter and get families in homes this summer.”
In September, singer “Drink in my hand” said he was “devastated by the destruction in the Western mountains North Carolina. “
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Eric Church plans to build dozens of homes in Avery district, North Carolina, for families who left homeless people from Hurricane Helena last fall. (Denise Truscello/Wireimage)
“These are members of our family, friends and neighbors. The community we live in in the part of the year still has people stranded and desperate for extraction. The whole area needs to help,” he wrote on Instagram.
He added: “Everyone who knows anything about me knows what North Carolina and specifically this area in the mountains in my person personally as creative.”
“Everyone who knows anything about me knows what North Carolina and specifically this area in the mountains me personally as creatively.”
The Church team will begin with the construction of homes for 100 displaced families in the Avery district and “keeping these communities preserved and renovated,” is said on the Chief Cares Avery website.
He added that the project was also dedicated to resolving “long -term needs such as job creation, reconstruction of schools and support for local companies”, noting that the victims of natural disasters are often forgotten when it ceases to be news on the front page.
The destroyed cars remain in Rijeka a month after the flood caused by Hurricane Helena last fall. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)
“Often when the catastrophe hits, the funds enter great people who want to help, but when the world turns a view of the next devastation, a lot can be lost and pierced through cracks,” the website states. “We are advocating for the long -term renewal of these communities.”
Blackburn told Fox News Digital that both Church and his wife, Katherine Blasingame, were “deeply involved” since the start of the project, using their relationships to find a real estate and get a local surveyor and engineer who will make plans for homes.
He said that the team also had weekly meetings to zoom with the church and Blasingame, “and they both address my local team to see what else they can do to support the victims of the flood.”
Eric Church performs at a deciduous concert for Carolin in Charlotte. (John Shearer/Getty Images for the Carolin Concert)
“The need is huge, and both churches are often associated with people who are directly affected by the flood or those who help them,” he explained. “Our energy is used not only to build houses, but also to ensure that other needs of the community is fulfilled by our organization.”
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Blackburn added that the first place to build homes was secured and will soon start working in the first houses.
Together with his project for the construction of the house, Church also released a song last fall, “The darkest hour (Helene Edit)”, with a song Profit goes for charityAnd he performed at the Benefit concert for Carolin in October.
Hundreds of thousands of people remained displaced by Hurricane Helena after hitting in late September and more than 200 died.
