Restoring Hope<\/a> chose the family for a full home makeover after learning about their son Ben, a young boy with disabilities.<\/p>\n\u201cHe\u2019s 5 years old. He\u2019s in a wheelchair. The house is not wheelchair accessible,\u201d said Donna Bagenstose with Restoring Hope.<\/p>\n
Volunteers will spend nine days renovating the home, opening doorways and adding accessibility \u2014 all at no cost to the family. Restoring Hope says there are many more people in Berks County who still need help, so they are always looking for more volunteers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get people to supply lunch for all the volunteers that are working on the house. We have painters and electricians and contractors and roofers and you-name-it that come in and help,\u201d Bagenstose said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s gesture that can bring more independence for Ben and his family.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to put him in a spot where he can wheel around the house all on his own,\u201d said Zach Zeoli, Ben\u2019s dad. \u201cWe\u2019re hopeful that he\u2019ll be walking soon, and just have everything set up for that, so he can access what he needs on the first floor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING TWP., Pa. \u2014 It all started at Red Caboose Park in Spring Township. Dozens of people gathered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[277,15321,21441,128,130,129,85063,3198,11409],"class_list":["post-190940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-accessibility","tag-disability","tag-home-makeover","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-restoring-hope","tag-spring-township","tag-wheelchair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}