Eight Days of Hope Helps Buffalo’s Ellicott District

BUFFALO, NY (WIVB) — Eight Days of Hope volunteers are donating their time to the City of Good Neighbors.

Throughout the week, more than 1,500 volunteers from across the country and Canada are helping lift ladders and lend a hand to neighbours in Buffalo’s Ellicott District.

“Our goal is to serve as many people as possible,” said President Steve Tybor. “We have an older housing stock in Buffalo, and working with about 95 churches and different businesses and all these volunteers, we’re going to help hundreds of families repair their roofs and install new windows, paint their homes, fix their porches and much more.”

For the past five years, they have chosen a Buffalo neighborhood and offered roofing, painting and paint removal, landscaping and more. This year’s mission is to help renovate over 100 homes and transform JFK Park.

“I love these people, a lot of my friends are there, people I don’t see unless there’s a disaster, and there’s people I haven’t seen in a year or two,” said Lancaster volunteer Jim Dobmeier. “It’s like coming home, everyone’s here, it’s great to see all my friends again.”

“I’ve made friends with people I have nothing in common with,” said Joe Bobo, a volunteer from Winchester, Ohio. “Other than our love for the Lord, it’s like another family.”

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