Current Operations
Team Rubicon Responds to Hurricane Fiona
09/21/22: Disaster relief volunteers have begun arriving in Puerto Rico to assist with recovery efforts.
Tag: Puerto Rico
Reflection
MREs, Tarping, and Meeting a Superhero in Puerto Rico
When Hurricanes Maria and Irma hit her homeland, a Team Rubicon volunteer stepped up for her first disaster relief deployment. Then, her mother arrived.
International
Teaching Homeowners Hurricane Resilience in Puerto Rico
In an effort to make Puerto Rican homes more resilient to future hurricanes and earthquakes, Team Rubicon partnered with Mercy Corps and Build Change for a two-day workshop on December 10 and 12 to teach homeowners how to reinforce their existing homes through a variety of methods. The two-day training included a full day of theory, instruction, and discussion in a classroom, followed by a … Read More
Home Story
Progress of the Puerto Rico Rebuild
This October, construction on the first Team Rubicon-funded house in Puerto Rico began. In conjunction with St. Vincent de Paul, TR identified three families, whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane Maria, who were in dire need and were ineligible for federal assistance. In order to receive federal funds from FEMA and from certain nonprofits, home … Read More
Uncategorized
Meet William Rodriguez, Case Manager of the Puerto Rico Rebuild Project
Passion exudes from 68-year-old William Rodriguez as he discusses details of the cases he manages for Team Rubicon’s Puerto Rico rebuild project. To Rodriguez, a native Puerto Rican from Vega Alta, each case isn’t a number or a situation where needs and risk have been assessed, but a personal story he has the privilege to … Read More
Innovation
Hospitality Breeding Out in Puerto Rico
Team Rubicon has invested more than $4 million in Puerto Rico’s recovery from Hurricane Maria. We have hired local contractors to rebuild more than 400 roofs and a minimum of three houses by the end of 2018. But these numbers do not tell the whole story; the whole story can only be told by talking … Read More