I also got to meet Michael, Ed, Paige, and their awesome crew. It was fun to watch them do "takes" and to see their personalities...all lovely :o)
Coming from a rehabbed neighborhood myself, I am sooo happy to hear the Estridge is also doing many other houses in the neighborhood. We are all about bringing community to the inner city. Yaye Estridge!
WARNING: some of the pictures below show the house a bit, so if you want a surprise, you'll have to wait until late May.
WARNING: some of the pictures below show the house a bit, so if you want a surprise, you'll have to wait until late May.
Great Photos. Thank you for helping this family, Thsnk you and your family for starting the process of change.
ReplyDeleteSome will say in a year it will just be the same place with the same problems, I drove to the first neighborhood where an entire city came together to help not just one family, but dozens of families. It was our first season, and five years ago.
Her name is Sweet Alice and she lives in South Central Los Angeles, her neighborhood had flooded and she lost everything but her spirit. We came to help her, but there were so many other families on her block who lost everything. It was the first time that people just started showing up and saying “how can I help.” Hundreds and Hundreds everyday. They cleaned out houses and painted. Planted trees and flowers. Picked up junk, and met people in their front yards. I remember one of Alice’s neighbors saying to a couple scrapping peeling paint off the side of her house, “What are you doing here…This is South Central. Not Beverly Hills.”
I have come to realize that our house is a metaphor for a much larger statement. The trees were five yeas older, the flowers have taken over, everything else was like the day we left, except this time when I drove down her street, children were playing in it, and not hiding in their house. Thank You to the thousands of volunteers who show that by helping the one, we help us all.
Conrad Ricketts
Executive Producer, Extreme Makeover Indianapolis Edition.
very cool!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous project! Your pics tell a wonderful story of a community coming together to help an individual family. You're amazing!
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