Overview
- The new Humanitarian Center was privately dedicated by the Presiding Bishopric on Wednesday, May 27, and begins a public open house with weekday tours from June 1 through July 23.
- The building measures 250,000 square feet and was built smaller than the prior site to improve efficiency for large-scale tasks such as sorting 1,000-pound clothing bales and rebaling them into 100-pound bundles for global distribution.
- The center combines logistics work with workforce development by hiring hundreds of associates from more than two dozen countries who spend roughly half their paid workday in English classes and earn job certifications before moving on, typically after about ten months.
- Church leaders describe the project as faith-driven humanitarian service that does not proselytize on-site, and the facility includes devotional space designed for Muslim daily prayers to accommodate religious diversity.
- The center continues a program dating to 1991, links with Deseret Industries and volunteer programs that produce about 5,000 quilts a year, and is expected to speed the church’s emergency-response shipments while helping immigrants integrate into the local job market.