May 29, 2025

The Greater Pine Island Alliance is in need of skilled laborers to volunteer to work alongside and teach unskilled laborers.

“It is a skill, and it is an art form to put someone’s home back together, but with good teachers and good listeners, you turn that one body of a skilled laborer into a task force or 10 or 12,” said Erin Lollar-Lambert, Executive Director of the Greater Pine Island Alliance. “The recovery is going to take years. So, that skilled labor force is crucial to the recovery of this community, and we’re building back better, and we’re building back stronger.”

Follow the link below to the full Fox4 report

https://www.fox4now.com/pine-island-matlacha/we-can-get-the-bodies-if-you-can-bring-me-the-skill-pine-island-nonprofit-needs-skilled-laborers

 

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