70 Volunteers helped rebuilt this vet’s home.

Volunteers Gathered To Help Rebuild A Homeless Vet's Home

Hearing news about violence, robbery, all kinds of crimes made people think that there is no safe place nowadays. Though some people lose hope, there are still who believes that there is still a chance to make this world a better place.

The question is how? The simple answer is just doing a simple act of kindness, by choosing to bring happiness to those who badly needed it. Like these 70 people who volunteered to help a homeless veteran rebuild his home.

Malone outside his mother’s house.

60-year-old Michael Malone is a veteran of America's Armed Forces, who had been living alone in the streets of Indianapolis.

He served in the Air Force from 1976 to 1980, then later served in the Air Reserves from the years of 1981 to 1996. Michael was an honorable man, who lost his mother and daughter in a tragedy resulting him to suffer and struggle both emotionally and mentally.

The Home Depot

When people heard his story, volunteers from the Home Depot Foundation and the Hoosier Veterans Assistance Foundation (HVAF) gathered to help him rebuild his home. Would you believe that there were 70 volunteers reunited for this project who were motivated by Michael's story?

The volunteers worked hard to make Malone's home.

Because of this simple act of kindness, these volunteers not only rebuild Malone's home, but it also brought him joy, hope and happiness and the reason to live and enjoy life again.

Michael Malone poses in front of home remodeled by Team Depot.

Thank you for the volunteers as well as to the Home Depot for rebuilding Michael Malone's life. You all are such a blessing to him. Way to go!

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”

- John Holmes