Older Adult Home Modification grant is presented to ECAA

By News Staff on Tuesday, May 28, 2024
  • Executive Director of Evangeline Community Action Agency , Inc., Carleen Bellard (left) accepts a $1 million grant from HUD Office of Lead and Hazard Control and Healthy Homes Dr. Taneka Blue, and HUD New Orleans field office director Sylvia Purvis (right). (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
    Executive Director of Evangeline Community Action Agency , Inc., Carleen Bellard (left) accepts a $1 million grant from HUD Office of Lead and Hazard Control and Healthy Homes Dr. Taneka Blue, and HUD New Orleans field office director Sylvia Purvis (right). (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

    By: TONY MARKS Editor Evangeline Community Action Agency, Inc, was presented with a check in the amount of $1 million as part of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Older Adult Home Modification Grant Program. The check was presented on Wednesday, May 22, at the St. John Baptist Church Family Life Center, on Hickory Street, in Ville Platte. Making the presentation were Sylvia Pu…