INDIANAPOLIS -- Once abandoned properties in Indianapolis will be getting some love from a new program that’s working to help fix them up while also helping to repair the lives of those fixing them.
Homes that have sat abandoned for years, will be given a second chance thanks to the new initiative known as “B.U.I.L.D.” - Believers United in Local Development – a nine month program teaching troubled young men and women how to build character and so much more.
Friendship Missionary Baptist Church Youth Pastor Derrick Slack said the idea involves over 20 local preachers who are working to put the people in their program back on the right track.
“We’re looking to give them a second chance, and a third and a fourth. Chances are, if they have a new skill, they can keep their mind off what they use to do,” said Slack.
Slack said the homes will be given to families in need. One of those families is Patrick Patterson's, an assembly line worker at Carrier, the company set to send hundreds of jobs to Mexico by the end of 2017. Patterson and his family will be moving into one of those remodeled homes.
