When Thomas Mitchell, a part-time bus driver and full-time mechanic in Tennessee saw a mother struggling to get her daughter's wheelchair down her home's steps, he knew he had to do something. In a video posted by the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System's Facebook page, Mitchell explained his desire to help. “There was just hardly any room for her to maneuver this wheelchair. It just didn’t seem right for somebody to have to struggle like that.” He decided to help out the mother, Verna DeSpain, and her 10-year-old daughter, Lydia for free. Not knowing how exactly to go about building the ramp or how to afford it on his own, he contacted his local Lowe's and told manager David Adams about his idea. Adams asked Mitchell for a list of materials and supplied them at zero cost. Mitchell knocked on DeSpain's door with four friends (including a construction worker) and in just a few hours, Lydia had a brand new ramp. The ramp even includes a little deck that Verna and Lydia plan to sit on when the weather warms up. “Everybody should be helping out their neighbor, and so many people just drive by,” Mitchell said in the video. “So many people comment, you know, that it’s such a great thing. I challenge them to do the same. There’s no greater feeling.”

When Thomas Mitchell, a part-time bus driver and full-time mechanic in Tennessee saw a mother struggling to get her daughter's wheelchair down her home's steps, he knew he had to do something.

In a video posted by the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System's Facebook page, Mitchell explained his desire to help.


“There was just hardly any room for her to maneuver this wheelchair. It just didn’t seem right for somebody to have to struggle like that.”



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He decided to help out the mother, Verna DeSpain, and her 10-year-old daughter, Lydia for free.



Not knowing how exactly to go about building the ramp or how to afford it on his own, he contacted his local Lowe's and told manager David Adams about his idea.

Adams asked Mitchell for a list of materials and supplied them at zero cost.

Mitchell knocked on DeSpain's door with four friends (including a construction worker) and in just a few hours, Lydia had a brand new ramp.

The ramp even includes a little deck that Verna and Lydia plan to sit on when the weather warms up.

“Everybody should be helping out their neighbor, and so many people just drive by,” Mitchell said in the video. “So many people comment, you know, that it’s such a great thing. I challenge them to do the same. There’s no greater feeling.”

