Home Depot helps Detroit veterans

The Home Depot Foundation reported it recently beautified a community space at a permanent housing facility for veterans facing homelessness in Detroit, Michigan.

Team Depot, The Home Depot’s associate volunteer force, was onsite to landscape and create this new green space while following all CDC and government safety guidelines, it related.  

“I love to see our associates wrap their orange hearts around a community in need,” said Isabel Chapman, Team Depot captain and Home Depot store manager in Pontiac, Mich.

Associates from across Detroit completed various projects including mulching, planting flowers and performing hedge care, wrote the retailer.

They also  added  patio benches,  installed  grills and  built picnic tables and  fire pits. These additional amenities created spaces for residents to bond and help forge a greater sense of community.

This veteran housing facility is operated by Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries and is part of the community’s efforts to end veteran homelessness, the company indicated.

“My hope in creating this space outdoors is to give the residents of the Detroit Rescue Mission a safe place for respite, healing, fellowship and reflection,” Chapman related.

The community is driving this work in partnership with Built for Zero, a national initiative to end homelessness, with support from The Home Depot Foundation and the Rocket Community Fund.

The facility offers new apartments with kitchenettes, upgraded  fixtures  and renovated common areas to meet the needs of  our nation’s heroes, the retailer pointed out.

This  day  of service follows a $750,000 commitment from The Home Depot Foundation and  the  Rocket Community Fund earlier this year to support facility renovations, it added.