Carol’s Home gets countrywide exposure

A national magazine has profiled the local “Carol’s Home” project in an article on heroic feats by people and groups nationwide. The “Heroes Among Us” feature is in the latest issue of People Magazine, now available at newsstands.Carol’s Home A national magazine has profiled the local “Carol’s Home” project in an article on heroic feats by people and groups nationwide. The “Heroes Among Us” feature is in the latest issue of People Magazine, now available at newsstands. The profile highlights a group of local home builders and contractors for their generous donations to build a new home for a woman left handicapped after a brutal attack, says the Charleston Trident Home Builders Association. Some association staff and participating members are featured. The association broke ground April 25, 2008, on the home for Carol Armstrong, attacked by a stranger in 2002 as she was locking up a medical building she had just finished cleaning in North Charleston. The beating left her permanently confined to a wheelchair with limited movement of her arms and partially blind. In January, crews completed work on the new Summerville home, which is equipped for handicapped accessibility. More than 50 Charleston area companies worked for free on the project to help give Armstrong and her family a new start. The association got involved after learning Armstrong was living in a home where she was confined to one room because of her new disabilities. The house had small doorways and wall-to-wall carpet. Immediately, the association’s board took action and agreed to help the Armstrong family. To read more about the “Carol’s Home” project visit