Mike Holmes is an SOS Children's Villages supporter.August 27, 2009: On Saturday, August 29 at 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (7 a.m. Central Time), a two-hour special about Canada’s leading TV contractor -- "Holmes on Homes" host Mike Holmes -- will air in the U.S. on HGTV.

The special will show Holmes hard at work in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. There, he built a prototype home in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward as a model for the area’s rebuilding efforts.

Mike Holmes Supports SOS Children’s Villages

Holmes has a big heart. He believes in building homes for people who have none, from New Orleans to the 132 countries around the world in which SOS Children’s Villages creates homes for orphaned children.

Mike Holmes sponsors an SOS child and an SOS Children’s Village.

Mike Holmes sponsors an SOS child and an SOS Children's VillageSOS Children’s Villages provides warm homes and loving, professionally trained local SOS mothers to children whose life prospects would otherwise be very grim.

The charity’s work is based on the principle that all children need a secure home and the attentive care of a mother and a community in order to flourish. SOS also runs schools, clinics, and social counseling centers.  

Two Things That Mike Holmes and Brad Pitt Have In Common

After the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, Holmes joined forces with Brad Pitt, who formed the Make It Right Foundation to help rebuild New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward. Holmes and his colleagues at the Holmes Group have donated their time to construct affordable, environmentally sustainable houses.

Brad Pitt appears at the end of the Holmes TV special to be shown on Saturday.

But Mike Holmes and Brad Pitt share another cause—the plight of children taken in by SOS Children’s Villages. Through the Jolie/Pitt Foundation, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have contributed funds toward SOS work in Sudan and its neighbor, Chad.

Children in places like Darfur, in western Sudan, have experienced horrific violence, deprivation, and emotional loss. SOS operates safe havens for children in Sudan and other war-torn countries.

A little bit goes a long way in places like Sudan. Follow the lead of Brad Pitt and Mike Holmes by supporting an SOS child today.