Response to Love Center "Good and Green Homes" with WNY AmeriCorps and Team Depot

WNY AmeriCorps, The Home Depot, and the Response to Love Center celebrated Earth Day 2010, April 22, 2010, with a large scale neighborhood revitalization as part of the "Keep Our Neighbors in Good & Green Homes" project on the East Side of Buffalo, renovating homes and improving the streets surrounding Felician Sister Mary Johnice's The Response to Love Center. Team Depot volunteers and WNY AmeriCorps staff and members utilized $34,000 in funding provided by The Home Depot Foundation to complete the projects, including repairing unsafe porches, installing fencing, scraping and painting homes, replacing an entire roof, cleaning debris from the street, installing security lights, planting a community garden in a vacant lot, installing a new furnace for one homeowner, and installing energy efficient doors and windows.

"This was the greatest event in the twenty-five years of Response to Love Center, because it was truly, truly a response to the poor and those in need," said Sister Mary Johnice, who has been helping to feed and clothe the disadvantaged citizens of the East Side since founding the Center in 1985, "To see them smile and to be happy, that's what life is about, that's what we're here for. We're here to make a difference in people's lives, and that happened today."

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