My father and mother are being evicted from their home because the hospital wants to expand. They have lived in their home for over 51 years. My Father is a silver star decorated World War 11 Marine. He had 2 tours in the pacific, On the Marshall Islands he lost eyesight in his right eye by saving the life of a fellow Marine. He served in the South Dakota Sate Legislature 1953-1954. He is a member of the Marine league, V.F.W., American Legion and the Shrine. He loves his home. What wouild be nice is if you could build a smaller 1 floor home like that one they have now with firepalce, beautiful mantel and wood work, with 2 baths and 3 bedrooms and a den to hold his antiques.My dad never talks about his war years. but it would be a tribute to the men and women still living that are the Greatest Generation.

Carter Osterhouse just announced on HGTV (2/07/09)that you are looking for Iraq vets that need help with their home. Please enter our son as he was shot eight time during two tours of duty in the infantry. His name is Andy Madison, his “E” mail is discoddi@msn.com. He lives in warwick Rhode Island. Please help him.

I would like to know how I can nominate someone for a kitchen makeover. About 11 years ago, I married a wonderful man, Troy, who lovingly took in my two daughters as his own. He loves to cook and shop (the perfect man) and I tended to the house and the yard. About 7 years ago, we had our own child via invitro fertilization and were blessed with a beautiful son, Steven. Since giving birth, I have been plagued with a variety of physical and psychological disorders and could not take much part in raising our family. Being the man he is, he jumped in with both feet and took over the household. I spent most of my days in bed and nights laying awake worried that this wonderful man would suddenly realize this was not what he had signed up for…he never did. Finally, after about 5 years, I was finally diagnosed as Bipolar 2 with PTSD. That answered alot of questions but brought on another journey we had to take and we have taken it together. As I said previously, Troy loves to cook and we had a beautiful kitchen in our previous home but had to move to be closer to my doctors and family. Now, he prepares our meals in a narrow, dank and dark kitchen with a patched floor and about 12 feet of counter space. I’m hoping that some will read this and help me give something back to this man who has so unselfishly given to others. Please let me know where I can nominate him…

Hi,My name Mu’minah , My mother relocated to California with her 6 children and gave this women $2,500 dollars to secure an 5br. As I tell you this story I’m crying because she left us to be homeless and Children and Youth was called out on us because where we were the toilets was filled with fecal, urine and all types of bugs and no running water, So we had to literally flee to New Jersey and stay with my grandmother, my Aunt and Mother friend and they all told us we had to leave so we had to go back to Pennsylvania where we had originally had a nice 6br. house and gave it up to go to California. My mother was able to start proceedures to sue this women and she was served by the County Sheriff officers there but because they called Children and Youth on us because of that unsanitary house she haven’t been able to get back there to go to court hard getting back there and now she just seems depressed and we are too we don’t want to be here it’s affecting my 16yr. old sister, she isn’t performing her best in school as for myself I’m in the 12th grade and want to study Marine Biology and foreign relations I’ve been affected because my GPA was lower than it should’ve had been because of my absentees with living from place to place I missed a lot of days but my feel guilty for the scholarship wasn’t able to get and getting into the colleges I would prefer to attend. Wilkes University or NYU. I’m unhappy because a lot of the other Seniors did get accepted and not me and I have a tumor in my breast and I’m so young. My mother truck broke down on her and she uses it to take the children to school. I seems that everything bad is happening to us. My Mom lost my baby brother as a result of this last February, I really wanted to see him.
We are still mourning over him now but I know she hides her sorrow so we won’t see. The children Father’s won’t help her. My sister and I is the oldest we lost our father when we were 2and 3. My mother was a widow at the age of 24 it’s crazy I tell if you only knew our struggle. My mother gained weight which makes me so unhappy because if you see pictures of her she was beautiful in good shape and took care of herself but life happen in a bad way to her. I quote a passage from Phophet Jeremiah when he prayed for help, God sent another Phophet on the other side of the world to give him food that he God HIMSELF said “Prepare a plate for Jeremiah” and the other Phophet said how can I, he’s on the other side of the world he said again prepare a plate for Jeremiah and God had an white animal none like we have ever seen to carry this Phophet to give the food to Jeremiah and when he descended in the place where Jeremiah was at Jeremiah said upon seeing “Have my LORD remembered me” the other Phophet replied “yes your LORD have remembered you” so I tell this great story to ask whom ever eyes read this pray for us. We’re in turmoil but not despair and to help me give my mother some ease, out of an depress and oppress situation that she didn’t forsee but untrustworthy people who would rip off a women with 6 children off. Please Remember us and your Lord is swift in reward to whom ever assist his servants.She loves the members at HGTV they are a God send.We watch this show faithfully and wish they would come rescue us. I sit there and say I wish that they would help my mother cause I can see it in her eyes how much she wants to have you all to help her I believe she wouldn’t be depressed no more. To have an ease is better than being rich. Please let me know where to be nominate my Dear mother. Sincerely Mu’minah

This is some really great information. Keep up the excellent work…A great find.

Hi I would like to volunnteer members of our food pantry at the church of my memebership. I think sometime people look at food pantries as a simple process of just giving away food not really knowing the man power,getting up at 5:a.m.twice during the week to collect food, haul it back and unload and seperate into bag,dealing with multiple personalities and behaviors. Our pantry started out feeding 75 families and now we’re up to 300 families and counting with the same workers from the inception of our program. The pantry is in great need for storage of food and electical work. The kitchen is heavily used and has taken a toll on storage space and electical malfunctions. We have been trying for the last year to have an exit door installed and just given the run-around. I would love to invite HGTV just to come and witness the blessings of feeding families with no complaints from the volunteer staff but just to serve families in need.

Thanks
Wil

Will be very nice if they have a progame that help single mom with four children like me to get a nice home that i never going to have one for my four kid. I am a single mom with four child, has been lay-of work for last two years no income, we live with a friend in two bed room apartment. four of us live in one bed room and my son live in living room. We really need help. We hope something nice will happen on this christmas day. Thank you HGTV for reading our wish for christmas.

I would like to nominate the St. John’s Quilter’s in Salem, New Jersey, for the honor of “change the world.” We are a group of l2 women, from age 50 to 90. We meet once a week, except through the summer, to make child sized quilts to give to the Ronald McDonald House in Camden, NJ. We have been working on this for over a l4 year period. We have given them hundreds of hand make and hand quilted quilts over that time. The Church gives us a sewing room and an annual grant to buy material, etc. We are not all members of the Church. We have women from other Churches in the community who heard of our mission and have joined with us. They are a faithful group who show up, no matter what the weather to help see that the children who are in the hospital are given a quilt to keep as there own, and hopefully, to bring a smile to their faces during a stressful time.

Had I known about your interest im people changingthe world sooner I would have nominated Ann Heler of Ferndale, Mi. she has become the driving force behind Ferncare, a free medical/mental health clinic to open in the spring 2010 – a group of volunteers will man this clinic, monies have been raised in small and medium aounts, our motto is “nickel and diming our way to a free clinic” we are making it happen!! check out Ferncare.org for more information thank you for all you do to promote the goodness of people doing the right things Linda Baker, a friend of Ferncare

Hi, my name is Tanisha and I with my mom Sandra volunteer our time with young at-risk girls ages 10 to 18. We live in a small city outside of Pittsburgh called Aliquippa. We have been plaqued with pre-teen pregnacies, gang murders, school drop-outs, drug abuse and most important no hope for the future. Our girls are fed up with what is going on here and is trying to make a difference for themselves. We created a group called DREAMERS which stand for Daring to reach educate and motivate encouraged responsible sisters. We started in 2007 and everything we do we raise money on our own. Ms. Sandra helps us by inviting us to have meetings in her home. We have movie days, educational workshops, use her computer to do homework, and some of them stay over when times at home are too rough. She has always opened her house to girls who don’t want to be on the streets when they can’t go home. She let them know that it is always good to give of yourself so when we can we donate our time to our community. Ms.Gill is the person we all go to when they can’t take it anymore. She opens her heart and her home so we don’t give up and become apart of the negative environment. She does not have a lot but what she have she shares with the youth. We were watching tv and we got on her computer and wrote this letter to see if someone could help her help us. She does not know what we are doing and I hope we are doing the right thing. She rents from a beautiful christian women who knows our mission and is trying to help in her own way. Help her, please! She is our only hope! She cares! Thank you.

I am sorry we would like to nominate Sandra Gill. She is my mother but the girls needed help doing this and they asked me. I hope we did the right things to get her nominated. The e-mail is the one we all use for our DREAMERS. These girls want to achieve their goals of graduating and being the productive people they can be. My mom has helped my friends when I was growing up. She took in girls who mom has passed away, girls who were pregnant and was kicked out, girls of drug abused homes. These girls all finished school with the help of my mom. This is her mission, she is very active in the community when it comes to the youth of Aliquippa.

I’m writing in hopes that HGTV can help out my family in their time of need. I am nominating my parents Charles and Norma Mccomas. My mother was a stay-at-home mom for my brother, my sister, and I. My dad retired from the V.A. hospital of 25 years. Since then, My father has had to work in the construction business. Last year, my parents sold their home to build their dream home on the river. They are raising my four neices, ages 2 to 14. They bought a small travel trailor to live in until the house was completed. Last year, we almost lost my older brother to a hit and run motorcycle accident. He pulled through, but in the process, my father lost his job, therefor running out of money to complete their house. In the mean time, my parents and for neices are still living very uncomfortably in the travel trailor. I thank God my parents are strong enough to raise and keep the children together. This is a heavy load on my parents when it should be their golden years. With no complaints from my father, he just does his best to take care of everybody. Now, I would like to help give back to him some of what he’s given up for the rest of his family. As they’re getting older, it worries me that they both have to work so hard. So please find it in your hearts to help my family I’d be forever grateful.

a few years ago my daughter and her husband took everything they worked for to purchased their first home. This cute little home had been purchased and renovated by the owner/realtor. Prior to purchase all inspections had been done through this realtor/contractor. After a dry season going into the wet they discovered the full carpeted and drywalled basement leaked. The wood stove in the basement was not functionable allowing smoke into the home. Their basement is not functionable and is unhealthy. Since her husband became ill and passed away leaving her to raise two children alone. She has noextra income allowing for repairs. She had to rip off some of the dry wall and pull the carpet finding that not only had the foundation been leaking she has a mold problem. Her situation has her in a depressed and oppressed state of mind. Presently, she fights the leakage having a full sized basement unusable. Is there help out there for a person or people in this type os situation. She has tried to pull herself forward and the dream home her husband and her purchased is a complete mess she has no extra funds to put towards repairs. Her problems worry me and seems to only get worse. So please, is there a place for her in the heart to help my daughter, so she can carry the dream that her and her husband had for their family. Forever grateful. Thank you.

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