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Star94FM-Atlanta's community partnership with Dream House promotes the 8th Annual Music-on-Main, Sept. 11, 2010. DETAILS

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Three Inches to Freedom

Aug 2010 - Atlanta Hospital News Dream House online training for non-medical professionals. 

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Need ideas on ways to best help Georgia's medically fragile children and their families? See our wish list. There are numerous ways to give to help accomplish the Dream House mission.

Dream House has earned the Seal of Excellence from the Local Independent Charities of America. Learn more...

On May 9, 2009, Mei Ling Liu and her small band of friends gathered to help the Hammetts paint their master bedroom and redo the bathrooms. Although seemingly minor tasks, these "upgrades" were never afforded to the Hammetts, who have spent the better part of the past 20 years taking care of a constant flow of medically fragile children.

Mei Ling Liu contacted Dream House in 2008, as a representative of the Korean American Coalition, in hopes of identifying a community service project.

Via the Family for Keeps® Bridging the Gap program, Dream House acted as a liaison to connect Mei and her friends with Ken and Judy Hammett.

Family for Keeps®
Referral Line:
678-485-4810
Now Accepting Transition Care and Respite Care Referrals Transition Care Home in Lilburn, Ga.

The Meiflower Project

We are so grateful for the work put in by the volunteers. They did a good job...were a hard working group of people and easy to get along with. Thanks so much for arranging for their work at our house. - Ken Hammett

The Meiflower Team (see more photos below)

When you meet someone who has adopted, raised, and loved over forty children who would have otherwise been lost to under-staffed and under-equipped medical facilities, your perspective on life changes. Your appreciation for the fact that such a person exists, that this person embodies all the altruistic values that you grew up seeing in movies and books, stops you in your tracks. You pause out of pleasant surprise, contemplate, and engage in an experience that will adjust your path in life toward the better. At least, that was the case when the Meiflower team met the Hammetts. And all we did was paint a few rooms for them. 

We decided to volunteer because we enjoy volunteering, but few such opportunities engage and build character as much as this project. We came away with an appreciation for simply having met people like the Hammetts, having played with their children, and having bonded with friends in something few people get to experience. That's why we're looking forward to coming back.

- Mei and Stephen