United We Serve: Rebuilding Together Leads Alliance Volunteers in DC Community Service Project

On the morning of September 11, 2009, 12 Alliance staff members joined dozens of volunteers outside the Brashear residence in Southeast Washington DC, for a day of remembrance and service. Their mission? To rebuild the home of 74-year-old widow Mrs. Brashear in a community service effort led by Alliance Associate Rebuilding Together, a nonprofit that helps rebuild and revitalize low-income homes and communities nationwide.

For Mrs. Brashear, the helping hand couldnt have come at a better time. During her 50 years in the house, she had raised two generations, watched her husband and several of her children and grandchildren march off to war and buried two sons who died while serving in Vietnam. Since her husband's passing in 2000, maintaining her two-story home while caring for her disabled son and grandson had become increasingly difficult. In addition to these personal challenges, Mrs. Brashear grapples with a problem faced by millions of low-income families across America: a house rife with inefficiencies that often incur above-average utility costs.

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• retrofit
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