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Community rallies to build home for disabled couple |
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Salem, New Brunswick, Canada - Five months, $12,000 and the helping hands of 25 volunteers have built a new house for a New Brunswick couple.
When Carr saw the conditions Charlotte, who has the spine deformity scoliosis, and Jay, who is paralyzed from the waist down from a workplace accident nine years ago, were living in, he rallied members at Hillsborough Baptist Church to build a new home for the Allans.
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"To go from living in the trailer that was falling down around us to be able to say, 'Wow this is mine,' was just an overwhelming feeling." |
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