Donna Russell is a hard working mother of three, who moved into her house in 1978. She raised her family there, and all now attend college. One recently graduated from California State University, another is at UCLA and her son is in school to be a computer engineer. Donna is proud of her children, and is now eager to devote some time to her house.
Her house is 77 years old, and when she heard at a local neighborhood meeting that she could give her house some much needed repair, she jumped at the opportunity. She hoped that she had a chance to receive some help from A Brush With Kindness, and she seemed thrilled to have everybody there working on her home.
“Everything is wrong with it. There were at least 20 things wrong with the house from the plumbing on up. I had no back door, and they replaced it, they’ve replaced broken windows, I have an old furnace that hasn’t worked in at least 15 years, and they are even looking at that to see if they can get it working!” she said. Donna can’t wait to give back to Habitat for Humanity and help those like her. “The time that the volunteers put in is really heartwarming,” she said, “I wish I was retired so I could do this more often!”
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