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Family Profiles | Completed Cases

Over the last ten years, OPERATION HOME has made emergency repairs on the homes of hundreds of our poorest neighbors. Our greatest concern is always for those who are most vulnerable: the elderly, the mentally and physically disabled and children with special needs—and for their caregivers. Good people faced with the enormous challenges of caring for their critically ill or disabled loved ones on incomes that are often well below federal poverty level. We’d like to introduce you to some of our clients…

Patty, a single mom of two facing homelessness, who had been unable to work because her four-year-old son born with severe birth defects requires round-the-clock care. The home she could afford was not safe for a critically ill child. Operation Home made it safer.

Mattie, 63, who is the fulltime caregiver for her 72 year-old sister, a double-amputee, and her 101 year-old mother—all sweetgrass makers. The two older women are wheelchair-bound, living in a home with rotten floors and limited wheelchair accessibility. Operation Home made their home more accessible.

Louis, 83 year old veteran with “one lung and half a heart” by his reckoning, who needed an air conditioner to help him cope better with the heat. Operation Home’s Heat Relief program provided him and others—over 70 last year and 100 this year—with window air conditioners.