Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Joplin

Last night Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: Joplin aired. I watched most of the two episodes. It was so sad (but hopeful) - I saw a few buildings that I had seen while I visited! I heard about this project while in Joplin (7 houses for 7 families in 7 days) and I thought it was a bit bittersweet: amazing for those families helped, but sad for the others who still won't have homes for a while (about 8,000 houses were destroyed). After watching (and having a few tears), I was happy to see that they did do a few things to help the community of Joplin in general. They worked to fix up a park that had been torn up by the tornado as well as helped with some clean up and gave a big bus to an art therapy program. Seeing the episode made me wish that I would have been able to talk to more people effected by the tornado. Anyway, maybe the episode of the show will help redraw some more attention to Joplin as they still need help as the people of Joplin continue work to rebuild.

FEMA Temporary Housing Neighborhood