Ms. O’Neil loves her home in Acres Home. This is where she was born seven decades ago and has lived her entire life. We knew she needed a wheelchair ramp, but none of knew that construction project would put us in a postion to help her recover from a critical disaster - the winter freeze of February 2021.
On January 18, 2021, MLK Day, volunteers David McCalvin and Austin Freeman led their crew to construct a wheelchair ramp, our first volunteer event for a year, due to COVID-19, since the previous MLK Day. Martin Luther King had a dream to build a bridge in America that provides everyone access. That dream became a reality for Ms. O’Neal as Rebuilding Together volunteers built a ramp entrance to her home. The project caught the Houston media's attention: Houston Chronicle, ABC 13
Less than one month later, the Winter Storm hit and froze Ms. O’Neal’s pipes. When the ice melted the leaks were so bad she had to shut her water service off. Because she knew us, she called for help. Finally, after two weeks, service was restored.
“I am ecstatic,” Ms. O’Neal told us after the repairs. “It does me so much good, and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
