Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (season 5)
| Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Season 5 | |
|---|---|
| No. of episodes | 25 |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 30, 2007 – May 18, 2008 |
| Season chronology | |
This is a list of season 5 episodes of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition series.
Ty and the gang travel to Kalihi, Hawaii to renovate the home of the Akana family. In addition to renovating the Akana family home, Ty and his team also renovate the KOKA Family Learning Center, which the family has run for over eleven years. The Akana family consists of Theresa (a.k.a., "Momi"), her husband Ben, her three children, and their daughter. The children are fourteen-year-old Keahi, twelve-year-old Kuʻulei, eight-year-old Maka, and baby Poli. Momi Akana was a single mother on welfare when she started the Keiki O Ka ʻĀina (meaning, "Child of the land") (KOKA) Family Learning Center. The center helps struggling moms and their kids. Keahi Akana is now the lead singer and guitarist of the band "Further than our Sky."
Ty and the crew head to Billings, Montana to a take on the home of Lon and Julie Carter and their three daughters, Jade, Sapphire and Chalce-Donae Carter who live in a refurbished chicken coop. Julie Carter and Jade Carter both suffer from a very rare and very serious brain malformation called Chiari malformation. According to an online article, Sapphire and Chalce-Donae suffer from a similar disesase as well. These three sisters won't let pain keep them down, though. All three are aspiring musicians and as Jade and Sapphire now reside in the greater Nashville area who knows what may happen to them. Interesting side note, all three sisters have tattoos honoring the three-brother band Hanson and list them as their greatest musical inspiration.
Ty and the crew head up to Corvallis, Oregon to take on the home of Rob and Rachel Byers and their three children, 13-year-old Joe, 14-year-old Chris, and 8-year-old Jenessa, nicknamed "Boey", who had been battling cancer for the past two years. On December 28, 2007, this special girl lost her battle only 12 weeks after the episode aired.
A family whose four kids suffer from a rare disease known as eosinophilic enteropathy, which causes their white blood cells think that the food they eat is a parasite and attack it. They have numerous medical complications as a result, and their dilapidated home is making it even worse. They are much loved by their parents and their dad is a hero because he has decided to go back to school to find a cure for his children.
In this episode Ty and the crew head to Bridgeport, Connecticut to rebuild the home of the Brown Family which was damaged by flooding, looting and fire.
Ty's Secret Project: Gloria's Room
Ty and the crew head to New Jersey to help a cancer-stricken father, 54-year-old Victor, who has been raising his five teenage sons ever since their mother abandoned them twelve years prior. They live in a run-down rental town-home in Camden with holes in the walls, bad plumbing, few furnishings, and no beds (the oldest slept on the living room couch). The father was unable to work due to two previous heart-attacks, and had started a local organization called "Single Fathers of Camden". Lack of money has left him wondering where his sons' next meal would come from, and left him forced to hold meetings for SFOC in his backyard. Ty and the crew sent the whole family to Spain for the week.
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