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Clete Yoder

Clete Yoder

Retired structural engineer and Mennonite Disaster Service leadership volunteer who designed improved building plans for disaster recovery homes.

Jul 15, 2026

5:17
talk a bit about some of the challenges now this was kind of i mean you were using the skills that you had but this was a whole new organization did you have like construction skills that maybe would have come in a bit handy as well or talk a bit about
5:33
by the time i got down there they were building new homes there in past christian and i didn't know too much about the the construction skills And so as a project director, I needed to know how to build these homes if I'm going to be a leader on a project like this.
5:52
So when I came home, then I would work with Habitat for Humanity two days a week.
5:59
And I learned my construction skills from foundation all the way up through the house and drywall and all of that.
6:05
So I worked Tuesdays and Thursdays every week learning construction skills.
6:10
And so as I learned those, and, of course, I was a civil structural engineer.
6:16
I knew structures.
10:24
Talk a bit about what that was like.

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