Help Your Neighbors Live Safely This Holiday Season
Your Donation Will Be Matched*
Funds from Giving Tuesday 2024 will be dedicated to critical home repairs which are necessary to ensure that neighbors can live in safe and sanitary homes for as long as possible.
JIO strives to coordinate all available critical home repair resources and fill in the gaps in community services for every HART client to address life-threatening and basic habitability situations. Roofs, windows, doors, and ramps are generally addressed. However, collateral damage such as sagging, rotting floors from water damage from the leaking roof are often ignored. The sagging floors eventually end up as gaping holes. James Island Outreach addresses these dangerous situations in homes in addition to the obvious exterior projects.
James Island Outreach is at an advantage with administering critical home repairs in the community because the small staff and volunteer force knows its clientele. Most of the HART clients have been visiting JIO for food for years. As the age of the financially challenged client population increases, so does the amount deferred home maintenance.
Every dollar counts. A roof typically costs $10,000 - $13,000 and floor repairs range from $6,000 - $7,000. A handicap ramp or new steps can be provided for as little as $500-$1,000. Every donation is greatly appreciated and needed.
*Donations will be matched by the James Island Outreach Board of Directors for this special Day of Giving campaign up to a total of $25,000.