Volunteers help veteran repair St. Cloud home

ST. CLOUD, Fla. – Dozens of volunteers arrived jointly Wednesday to make repairs and enhancements to a armed forces veteran’s household in St. Cloud.

The task was concentrated on the property of Brian Sunderland, who served in the Air Force from 1976 to 1980.

Not too long ago, Sunderland was confined to his household simply because of a fractured pelvis and mobility challenges.

“I couldn’t go any where, just housebound,” Sunderland claimed. “I was really on the front porch for really a even though.”

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The perform at the home arrived just after the Home Depot Basis and Osceola Council on Ageing teamed up with Meals on Wheels America.

“They’ve absent in advance and redone the roof (and) exterior,” Group Depot Captain Stephen Grant claimed. “Here we’re finishing up the landscaping, ramps as effectively.”

In addition to putting in an ADA toilet and seize bars in the lavatory, employees changed and repaired flooring throughout the house and designed wheelchair-available ramps.

In overall, extra than $40,000 well worth of products and perform was donated to assist make factors safer and far more at ease.

“This is providing him a diverse lease on existence,” Wendy Ford with the Osceola Council on Growing older explained. “Now he can go away the house. Now they can go destinations for the reason that he can actually get in and out of the property.”

Eco-welcoming solutions and electricity-successful creating practices had been also made use of during the repairs to assist reduced utility costs.

“Oh, I’m grateful. I indicate, actually,” Sunderland claimed. “I believe that is terrific any time they can enable any one.”

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The Residence Depot Foundation and Meals on Wheels The us, together with area systems like the Osceola Council on Aging, have alongside one another manufactured important house repairs and modifications that have helped about 1,900 veterans age comfortably in their residences. The Basis not too long ago declared a $2.3 million grant to Foods on Wheels The usa that will serve 275 senior veterans across the country.