Last Saturday (Oct. 23, 2010), Rebuilding Together Seattle (RTS) was in the Green Lake neighborhood.
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RTS completes free home repairs for low income homeowners who are elderly, disabled, veterans, or families with children, so that they can continue to live independently in warmth and safety.
On Saturday, RTS partnered with Honeywell to fix the home of an elderly and disabled homeowner and her daughter.
Photo courtesy Rebuilding Together Seattle
“I think it’s telling that a woman who is self-admittedly never at a loss for words was literally speechless,” Honeywell project leader and RTS Board Member, Gary Ballas said of the homeowner. “Once the work was finished and people had cleared out, it all sort of caught up with her and she was in tears over the transformation. They have had some tough times, and I was amazed at the improvement in her perspective from being around so many positive people doing something good simply because they knew they could.”
Ballas said that he heard from neighbors of of the homeowner that she herself “is practically a legend in the neighborhood for her long history of supporting others.”
For more information about Rebuilding Together Seattle, contact Sarah Ihrie at sihrie [at] rtseattle.org.
