We just wrapped up another successful Cares job and with it, a great half hour of television. The recent episode of “Helping Hands”, documenting our latest Cares project, has received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback from our thousands of viewers. Here are some of the good things we are hearing: I’ve lived in this area for over 30 years and [ Read More ]
Four years ago, Ryan Diviney and three friends were leaving a WVU game on foot. Leaving the same game was a gang of rowdy and drunken men who were looking for a fight. At the time Ryan was full of optimism and looking forward to “the best years of his life” and, maybe one day, a career in politics. The [ Read More ]
Many like to describe winters in D.C., M.D. and V.A. as mild but how many of those people have ever spent a winter without heat? Sharndell King and her two young children know how cold the days and nights in Maryland can get. When the family’s furnace stopped working last summer Sharndell began to worry about the fast approaching winter. [ Read More ]
With its contemporary style and touching stories, The TV series Helping Hands has enjoyed a great deal of success over the last year. Each Saturday, viewers all over the D.C. / metro area tune in to watch The Michael & Son Cares Team transform the home of a needy family. Until now, Helping Hands has only aired in the D.C. [ Read More ]
Recently, the Michael & Son Cares Program, USO and K95 joined forces to help a military family with home repairs and renovations. The recipients had purchased a farm in Southern Virginia with the intention of building a center for at risk inner city teens. Shane Drinkwater, the recipient of the award and active duty serviceman had longed dreamed of building [ Read More ]
If you drive from the suburbs of D.C. and down through Northern Virginia, you’d hardly see any signs of the financial crisis that swept through the country. From the Mc Mansions of Fairfax and Arlington to the sprawling estates of Clifton; Northern Virginia has some of the wealthiest communities in the country. While there are many within those communities [ Read More ]
Deep in the heart of Redskins territory, a Philadelphia Eagles fan named Brandon sits in his wheelchair shivering, despite the two Kerosene heaters clunking away in opposite corners of the room. The heaters give off more fumes than warmth and with every labored breath he chokes and coughs. His mother Dawn sits on his bed wringing her hands and agonizing [ Read More ]
Ayden Wilkins is a young boy who’s had it hard from the start. Born premature and weighing only 1.5 pounds, Ayden spent a majority of his first year in the hospital under intensive care. Because of his under developed heart, Ayden breaths with the help of a tracheotomy. Little Ayden doesn’t just rely on tubes for oxygen; he uses them to [ Read More ]
As the job market continues to worsen and the cost of living increases, more and more people are finding themselves in need of assistance. Unfortunately for those in needs, not for profit groups are unable to meet the rising demand and government assistance covers only basic necessities. The situation has left those affected to feel hopeless, helpless and abandoned. [ Read More ]
Michael & Son Services continues to give back to the community through its “Michael & Son Cares Program”. In the last few months we have received hundred of applications from people all over VA, MD and DC who are in need of assistance with essential home repairs they can not afford. The popularity of the TV show “Helping Hands”, coupled [ Read More ]
