When Life Overwhelms, This Group Lends A Healthy Hand [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 3/16/1512:00 PM

Ella Barnes-Williams is dealing with a lot right now.

For starters, her government-subsidized house in Northeast Washington, D.C., leaks when it rains. She points at a big brown splotch on the ceiling.

"It's like mold, mold, mold all over," she says. "I've got to clean that now 'cause that just came back."

Barnes-Williams is 54 and lives with her 30-year-old daughter and three young grandchildren. All three grandkids have severe asthma, which makes the mold a serious problem. And she and her daughter are diabetic.

[For more of this story, written by Anders Kelto, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/healt...lends-a-healthy-hand]

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