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Ray's The Roof House The Homeless
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We are a group of Real Estate investors, Consultants, Entrepreneurs a Veteran, another non profit and a professor of Architecture and General contractor. We take our convictions and turn them into action. Think you would be a good fit? Get in touch for more information! We can use all the help we can get.
Our Mission
After recognizing the need for effective, nonprofit work in North Carolina, we formed Ray's The Roof House The Homeless Foundation in 2019. Our mission is 3 fold 1st feed the hungry, 2nd house the homeless, and 3rd to build safe affordable low income housing. Our partnerships with institutions such as Elon & High Point Universities & local businesses such as Bed, Bath & Beyond & Outback Steakhouse and Olive Garden in Burlington, NC help us with our annual food & clothing drive on MLK day. As well as our alternating weekly food donations to the Piedmont Rescue mission, Trinity Worship center and the Caring Kitchen. Our members, volunteers & partners provide the momentum that helps us effect positive change. Our plans to build safe affordable low income housing have been delayed due to Covid-19. However we are ramping up our efforts to begin construction in 2022. Although this will be our first build we are confident that our partnerships with Building Humanity 501(c)(3), Engineers Without Borders USA, local General and sub contractors will prove invaluable in helping us accomplish our mission, to provide Safe, Affordable low income housing and temporary, transitional homeless shelters. With the support and co ordination with Municipalities and the implementation of proven programs such as "Housing First" & "Voucher Programs as well as the use of Green, innovative building Technologies & M2 Emmedue & RSG-3D building systems. We believe an end to food insecurity and homelessness are insight.
M2 Emmedue building system- https://youtu.be/KRGfoY5k0jo?
RSG-3D -Building system - https://www.rsg3d.com/
Innovative Building Tech - https://innovativebuildings.com/
Our 1st build will be in the near future, details coming soon.
After reading an article in 2019 about what an amazing non profit in California was doing. We reached out to Erin Colshan AIA, President/CEO of Building Humanity. They built a bakery and basketball court for Felix Family Orphanage in Surat Thani, Thailand. Building Humanity works with communities that are addressing systemic issues such as housing, education, girls & women, nutrition & healthcare and economic stability & growth. Working side by side with a community, Building Humanity helps facilitate the construction of their project using local resources, community involvement, and a team of volunteers and donated funds. Other projects have included homes for young families available through micro loans, a dormitory for girls to live and study during the school year, an eco-toilet facility, a community health center, a greenhouse to grow and sell vegetables, and a bakery that will employ local women and provide financial benefit to the community. Building Humanity focuses on projects that can address root issues within a community with short term action through the form of self contained projects. Erin agreed to work with us and the collaboration between Ray’s The Roof House The Homeless Foundation and Building Humanity is a great opportunity for these two charities to come together and complete a project that showcases Green, Safe, Affordable, Low income housing alternatives to stick built homes. That can serve as a model for the rest of the country to use to solve the homelessness crisis.
Check out their website. www.buildinghumanity.org
Homelessness can happen to anyone !
Some of your favorite celebrities have been homeless
Margot Kidder
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SYLVESTER STALLONE
Kidder the actress who played Superman's love interest Lois Lane, battled schizophrenia and manic depression. She even refused treatment at one time. Plagued by paranoia, Kidder slept in cardboard boxes and backyards around Los Angeles in 1996. With her front teeth missing and her hair hacked off, a disheveled Kidder announced to the Glendale, Calif., woman whose yard she occupied, 'I may not look like it, but I'm Margot Kidder.'"
SYLVESTER STALLONE
SYLVESTER STALLONE
SYLVESTER STALLONE
Was so determined to play the role of Rocky that he was willing to put up with homelessness for a time. Stallone was sleeping on bus station benches, but he knew that if he could hold out to star in the boxing film he wrote, it would be the break that would launch him as a film star.
Shania Twain
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Shania Twain
After her parents died when she was 22, the aspiring singer stepped up to raise her younger siblings. Twain experienced homelessness and domestic violence before getting her break, and she still managed to come out on top.
Steve Harvey
Tyler Perry
Shania Twain
Before he became a famous author, actor, comedian and TV host, Harvey went through a rough patch in the 1980s. For a time, he was homeless and living out of his car. As he describes it: "I had nowhere to go. A week is really the maximum one can do. This was three years! It was rock bottom. But even in my darkest days, I had faith it would turn around."
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry
When he was trying to get his musical I Know I’ve Been Changed off the ground, he spent six years homeless and living in his car. "Can you imagine a 6-foot-5 man sleeping in a Geo Metro?" Perry asked Essence magazine.
Halle Berry
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry
Though it may be hard imagine one of the most glamorous actresses in Hollywood living in a shelter, that's exactly the situation Halle Berry found herself in. While living in New York in her early 20s, she ran out of money. Instead of giving Berry a handout, her mom decided to teach her daughter to be her own woman by refusing to lend her more cash.
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