Our three areas of focus are:
Critical home repairs and modifications for low-income families and individuals in the Tri-County area. Work provided through this program includes roof and floor repairs, window replacement, building wheelchair ramps, bathroom modification, and many other repairs necessary to increase safety and accessibility. Clients must be referred to the program (by whom?)
Providing window air conditioning units for low-income families or individuals who have no other way to cool their home during the summer. Clients must be referred to this program; no self-referrals are accepted.
Providing space heaters to low-income families or individuals who have no other way to heat their homes during the winter. Clients must be referred to this program; no self-referrals are accepted.
Berkeley County, SC
2011
Bessie and her husband James have lived in their home for 18 years in Berkeley County. Both disabled, they live very modestly. When the roof began to cave in, there was little they could do. Bessie told the staff at Operation Home that she “put buckets all around the house to catch the water coming in.” Because they live on heirs property, little funding was available to help Bessie and James.
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McClellanville, SC
2011
Referred by South Santee Community Center, Ms. Robinson is an elderly woman who desperately needed a ramp to gain access in and out of her home. Only she and her sister lived in the house they called home for over 50 years in McClellanville. In poor health and suffering from severe arthritis; Ms. Robinson’s sister could no longer maneuver her in and out of the home, causing her to miss necessary medical appointments.
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Cross, SC
2010
On his 11th birthday, Raequon woke up and told his mother, Althea, that the gift he wanted more than anything was the ability to bathe himself without worrying that he would fall, as he had done before when- wanting independence- he got into the shower without telling his mother and slipped.
Diagnosed at birth with cerebral palsy, Raequon’s self-reliance has been his top priority since he was a toddler, when Althea began to tell her son that there is nothing he can’t accomplish….
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