Windermere Anthem Hills And Windermere Prestige Properties selected HomeAid for their 2010 Community Service Day project! 

The Windermere Community Day Committee collected applications throughout August. The committee then reviewed the applications and narrowed it down to two finalists. The committee scheduled on site visits to each location and interviewed the Executive Directors. 

The committee was thrilled with the decision in selecting HomeAid for this year's project.

On October 15th, more than 40 Windermere agents, staff and affiliates, along with family members joined together to help WestCare, one of HomeAid's partners, give a facelift to the Stepping Stones facility.  WestCare, a non-profit who

 provides services to at-risk teens and throwaway youth, wanted their Stepping Stones facility to have a more homelike and comfortable setting for these broken youth.

Windermere volunteers arrived at 9:00am and painted 3 girls and 3 boys bedrooms, an Educational room, their living area, the Administrative office, a Counselors office and a huge hallway.  They covered the institutional white walls with vibrant colors of sage green and adobe.  But that's not the end of the project.  The volunteers continued in each room painting artwork, words and inspirations phrases.  The rooms came to life when James Cooper of The Amazing Art Company brought in his group of Graffiti artists who added the residents favorite idols, such as Michael Jordan, Andre Agassi, Venus & Sabrina Williams and female NASCAR drive, Danika Patrick.  

The walls were filled with artwork in Chinese Symbols, hearts, flowers and sayings to give them hope, confidence and dreams.  The residents were overwhelmed with the new facility they call home.

Windermere volunteers were overjoyed knowing how this one-day project will make a difference in hundreds of children lives that will pass through these halls over the years to come.