SAWs celebrates completion of its 2013 season

The SAWs Mission of Greencastle Presbyterian Church hosted its fall celebration of the completion of the 2013 build season on Sunday, Sept. 22.

SAWs (Servants at Work) provides handicap ramps to qualified handicapped residents of Putnam County at no cost.

The season will not technically wrap up until the end of November, but the church hosted the celebration, including a pitch-in lunch, just the same.

This year the SAWs team will complete 24 projects involving ramps, handicap steps and safety rails for the handicapped in Putnam County. By the end of November, a total of 73 projects will have been completed since the program began in 2009.

It is not so much the number of projects completed that is being celebrated but rather the number of the Putnam County Residents who have been helped. All of these people have had their lives significantly changed by the improved access to their homes provided by SAWs.

Not only does the SAWs work affect the handicapped but it also provides indirect help to the families and friends of the recipients of the work. After the SAWs team completes its work, residents are no longer dependent upon a family member or friend to assist them in entering or leaving their homes.

This is the mission of SAWs.

SAWs has been providing this help to the residents of Putnam County for five years and would like to continue doing so in 2014. The build schedule is full for this year, but beginning in late March, the work will continue.

Organizers are asking handicapped residents who need their help to contact the church office at 653-5713 and sign up for next year.

If SAWs doesn't help our citizens, who will?