Scott D’Antonio, President of Hometown Heroes for Special Needs visited the Moorestown Rotary Breakfast Club to describe his passion for helping others in the Marlton Moorestown Area. The Rotary Club donated $500 to Hometown Heroes for Special Needs to help fund D’Antonio’s next project. In 2015, D’Antonio formed the 501(c) 3 charity and has donated one day a week of labor from his commercial contracting business to help families.
D’Antonio knows this from first hand experience and has a family member who needed extra help and knows the struggles involved with getting the right care for loved ones.
Personally, D’Antonio knows parents and caregivers have limited or no insurance and funding in getting what they need to help their patients, with wheelchair ramps, wheelchair and accessible bathrooms. At that point in time, D’Antonio decided he was going to use the contracting business to help special needs families.
Hometown Heroes’ funds projects by placing “day of service” coupon at charitable events, and the recipient would win one of our supervisors to do fixer uppers for a free day. Other local organizations chip in by donating tile, plumbing fixtures and waste disposal services.
Hometown Heroes has helped people with breast cancer, purple hearts, epilepsy, pediatric cancer and more to name a few. As they partnered with other local charity organizations, there message to help grew over time.
Recently, Hometown Hero’s for Special Needs was featured on ABC, and they are now filming an online home charity makeover show, Hometown Heroes for Special Needs Families on “NJ On Air.” On the show, they have done wheelchair accessible bathrooms, wheelchair ramps and numerous other light remodeling fixer uppers.
D’Antonio told the Rotary Club the next NJ On Air show is granting a wish to a young blind paraplegic man who hadn’t had the wheelchair accessibility to take a shower. His parents are too old to move their adult son and not physically able to assist him into the shower.
“His dream is to feel the shower water run down his back again,” D’Antonio said. “We all take a hot shower for granted, every day, and this person was not able to shower for sometime.”
