(3 May 2025)
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West Columbia, Texas – 28 April 2025
1. Various tracking shots of Dan Lee, who got help from Mosaic in Action, a nonprofit that has helped more than 450 homeowners and relies on a 30-year-old AmeriCorps community service program sending young adults to work on projects across the U.S. The group helped Lee repair the roof and get rid of the mold left behind in Hurricane Harvey’s wake.
2. Tracking shots of Dan showing repairs done inside his home.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan Lee, West Columbia Resident:
"Before they came, man, you know, I had holes in the ceiling where it got wet and the sheetrock had failed. And like, I think in like two rooms of the house, you know. And it was just a hundred-year-old house. I had all old wood windows where they was seeping air and stuff, you, know, they put all you windows in and stuff. So. It was raggly. I could honestly say it was raggly. I was ashamed of it."
4. Top-to-bottom tilt shot showing restored flooring inside the home
5. Wide exterior of home
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Liberatore, Mosaic in Action President and co-founder:
"Even now, we have people that have waited since Harvey for help. So you’re talking about eight years that somebody’s waited for help."
7. Wide of Gilbert Paul on a wheelchair working in his garden at the foot of a new access ramp built for him
8. Close-up on face
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilbert Paul, West Columbia Resident:
"My wheelchair ramp that I used was, the ramp was getting old and really, really flimsy, and I needed to get it repaired to make it real sturdy so that I could come in and out of my house."
10. Mid of Gilbert going over the ramp.
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gilbert Paul, West Columbia Resident:
"Things are getting so high that I wasn’t able to afford it myself. So with an agency like this, it helps to alleviate me having to buy all the lumber and do all the work myself."
12. Mid of Gilbert entering his home on his wheelchair
13. Mid of Jarred Hawthorne standing with the aid of a support on a new access ramp built by AmeriCorps teams
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jarred Hawthorne, Marine Veteran:
"It was tough, I’m a disabled vet. I do a lot of falling and things have progressed over the years and it wasn’t for Marcus and his team. It’s been a great benefit for the ramp."
15. Mid of access ramp in the foreground and Jarred in the background
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Debbie Allensworth, Mosaic in Action executive director and co-founder:
"We had a team that was scheduled to come to us on a Saturday. And on Tuesday, they disbanded all of AmeriCorps and Triple C.
17. Mid of Debbie standing outside a home they helped remodel.
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Debbie Allensworth, Mosaic in Action executive director and co-founder:
"You can imagine what it’s like to be in your home, never knowing how much rain’s gonna come in that day. And we have homeowners who are just still waiting for a tarp just to keep the inside of their house dry. And every time it rains, without a tarp on your house is more damage happening to the inside. And without those valuable workers, we just can’t do the work."
19. Tracking shots showing new floor installations.
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan Lee, West Columbia Resident:
"From my house all the way to Brazoria, you know, we did what they did, work on people’s houses. And I still volunteer for them, and I still dream that one day God’s going to bless them with the finances that they need to keep doing what they’re doing."
21. Mid of man at the door to a house.
23. Mid of Jarred Hawthorne, Marine Veteran
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