Extreme Makeover Home Edition goes to PA to help special needs family whose home is on a dump site

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Dan Ryan Builders will be traveling to Quincy Township, Pennsylvania to assist the Drumm family, who has helped transform the lives of disabled children through the Challenger Little League Program. Their home, which has formerly been used as a site to dump of trash and waste, will be rebuilt in only seven days.

After the birth of their second child with autism, Matthew and Blasia dedicated their lives to children with disabilities. They help manage special needs Little League and during the school year, Blasia works as a teacher’s aide at the Franklin Learning Center for Handicapped Children. Their little league program has been a source of weekly gatherings for the communities’ special needs and the Drumm family helps operate the concession stand and coordinate travel for the league to other tri-state games and tournaments. Matthew and Blasia have been of assistance to other blossoming leagues that have developed in other areas and were awarded the Penn Marr Challenger League, Division Family Service Award in 2006.

When purchasing their home, the Drumm’s were unaware that the home itself and the surrounding lot were used to dump trash and waste. Because of their financial hardships, the family has not made any improvements to the home, which is heated by one single wood-burning stove. The Drumm’s hope for the future is to work full-time from home to help other special-needs families. With a dream of transforming their family’s junkyard home into a fresh new family dwelling where they can offer in home respite care to other special needs children, Ty and the designers of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” have a big challenge in store for them.

While Dan Ryan Builders, Ty and the designers along with the Challenger Little League Program and hundreds of volunteers and workers are rebuilding their home, the Drumm family will go on vacation to Walt Disney World.