[CO-CURE] NOT,ACT: Potential site available for MCS Housing

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From Pat Gurnick <pat:

 

Dear Friends,

This community is being built for CFIDS/MCS/FMS !  Come 'HELP' us develop

this important co-housing healing environment.

Warmly,

Pat Gurnick, CLC

Psychotherapist

Certified Lifestyle Counselor of CEFCA Website Support

www.caringcounselor.com

" CFIDS/FMS/MCS Survivor "

 

 

Potential site available for MCS Housing

 

As some of you may know, we are developing PWC Cohousing for people with

fibromyalgia and CFIDS. Recreation Health & Wholeness has been working on

this project for several years. We have sites in Gloucester, Massachusetts

and Windsor, South Carolina. For economic reasons, the first phase of the

PWC Cohousing project cannot accommodate people with Multiple Chemical

Sensitivities (MCS). However, we have been inundated with enquiries from MCS

folk. Because of this, we have decided to offer part or all of one of the

South Carolina sites for sale to those of you who might be interested in

forming a group to build an MCS-compatible community. This is a 27-acre

piece of land adjacent to the Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve

( http://www.dnr.sc.gov/managed/heritage/aikengopher/description.html ).

This site was acquired after extensive research into both desirability and

economics.

 

 

We are writing to all of you because you are the 40 or so people with MCS

who have inquired about PWC Cohousing and are highly motivated to build safe

housing for yourselves and your families. (There are others whose emails are

not currently available but who have extensive information onspecifications,

materials, models and existing research on MCS home

requirements. There is an established project in California and a doctor who

has researched and designed a program for homes.)

 

Within the group there are some very talented people who have background

in,for example, grant writing, fundraising, marketing, communications,

bookkeeping, management, design and floor planning. Combining your skills

will make the development, building, and administration easier and much less

expensive. You might consider setting up a separate from the PWC

Cohousing one so you can " meet " and discuss issues and progress.

 

 

Your group also has among its members: nutritionists, organic gardeners,

physical therapists, Yoga instructors and Pilates instructors who can help

keeping the community as healthy as possible. Many of these people can

assist with the nearby PWC Cohousing project and may find later part time

work supporting one or both project. As many of you know, PWC Cohousing has

already researched low interest individual financing for qualified low

income homebuyers, options for group organization, funding sources for

community development, and we have design, planning and development

experience. We would be in a position to act as consultants in this capacity

for a similar MCS project

 

 

 

The MCS site could support the PWC Cohousing clinic, and we could give you

support with that as a joint project. Furthermore, our nonprofit could

sponsor you as a " Self Help " group, opening options to make the homes even

less expensive. In addition, Habitat might come on board to help with

building. Later you may wish to consider a community eating area; a homeschool

building; daycare or preschool facility; and arts, crafts, and recreation space.

We

could help steer you to potential funding sources for these.

 

 

 

This site will likely have much more of a family orientation than PWC

Cohousing, since many MCS folks have children who they also wish to protect

from toxins. So if you discuss this and some are interested in purchasing

the land and building MCS-safe housing, contact us as soon as possible at

 

Recreation

and include your telephone number.

 

We would also appreciate your spreading the word about this project to MCS

groups and individuals that you know.

 

Thank you,

 

Dr Judy Warrington

Recreation Health & Wholeness

 

www.pwccohousing.org

 

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