For everyone who works for or with Welcome Home Angel, renovating a house is about more than adding aesthetic appeal or indulging in the latest trends. It’s about improving functionality and creating a safe, accessible environment for friends and neighbors who could use a helping hand.
“It might seem like it’s just helping one child at a time,” said Craig Wagner, the nonprofit’s CEO, “but it’s all part of an ongoing effort to meet these needs for the whole community.”
In 2007, Welcome Home Angel’s president and founder, John Kaiser, learned of a couple of local kids whose families faced uncertain futures due to a serious injury and a life-changing diagnosis. From there, the organization was formed on the foundation of helping to provide children as young as 4 and young adults as old as 21 living in the Wilmington area with custom living arrangements to accommodate them as they and their parents or guardians learned to cope with their chronic illnesses or injuries…