(lawn mower whizzing)
(light, cheerful music)
We've been out here, well, it started with me way back
in 2015.
I decided to cut lawns free for the elderly, disabled,
single parent mothers, and the veterans after I saw a
a elderly man outside cutting grass.
At first, my goal was to reach a hundred, at first my goal
was to reach 40 lawns by winter, 'cause I was cutting
in between classes.
But then I reached 40 lawns so quick, that I decided to up
my goal to a hundred lawns.
Then, like a month and a half later, I reached my
hundredth lawn.
Then, the idea of Raising Men Lawn Care Service came alive.
(upbeat music)
I wanted, yeah, make the world a better place, ya know?
You don't see that much people helping out anymore,
so ya know, when we can come by and help someone, ya know,
it feels good, ya know, to know that we're giving back
to our community, ya know.
We're influencing a lot of people, not just in Huntsville,
but nationwide, that are doing the same thing, getting out
and doing the same thing 'cause they see us.
So, it feels good to start a trend.
(leaves rustling)
The boys come from different backgrounds, but they come
together with one common purpose, and that's to help out,
ya know.
They have a lot of similarities they find out and that,
it's like a brotherhood.
They're building a brotherhood with each other.
Gotta make a muscle.
(laughing)
Make a muscle.
Alright y'all pay attention, think about the protocol.
Put that on the ground.
Alright, you wanna put this in the holes.
(light piano music)
When they first start, they start with a white shirt.
Then, once they cut ten lawns, they get a orange shirt.
Once they cut 20, they get a green, 30 a blue, 40 a red,
then 50 a black.
And once they reach 50 lawns, they're like a black belt
in cutting grass, so I think they love that initiative,
ya know, to come out and do that.
It's a lot of kids out here that don't have fathers or
they're absentee fathers.
They're in their life for a moment, ya know, and we kinda
take the weight off, ya know, off of a lot of the kids,
of having a male figure that genuinely allowing them to,
ya know, to grow to be themselves, but also, get that
structure at the same time.
You come introduce yourself, new dude.
Come on over here, man.
Caleb Douglas?
I'm Terrence Stroy, man.
Nice to meet you, dude.
Nice to meet you, too.
Uh-huh, man.
We can't take away what makes them, if that makes any sense,
you know what I'm saying.
We just want to cultivate it properly.
We just tell 'em they come out to make a difference,
ya know.
A lot of the kids, to tell ya truth, they call us up every
weekend, during the week, while I'm in school, I get a
message from one of the kids saying, make sure you got a
spot for me this weekend.
So, it's just something about helping people that they love
to come out every weekend to do it over and over and over.
(leafblower starting)
This is Little Nico, team mascot.
Team mascot.
Terrence's son.
This my little man, right here.
(laughing)
(making dog noises)
He gets paid for cuteness, that's about it.
(laughing)
Man, I'm from the island of Bermuda, so like, in Bermuda
it's called the Bermudian way, when you help somebody,
so that's what we're trying to bring back.
Just help someone if you can, if you're able, just do it.
And now what it's doing, this program, it's, you can see
it, you like say that's southern love.
That's starting to come back out more and it's diverse
and that's the main part, ya know, diverse love coming out.
I can hold him like a baby.
We have a lot of progress.
We have a lot of parents that actually hit us up to say,
man, ya know, our child did a complete 360, ya know,
compared to where he was last year, ya know.
What we're doing is not just a need in Huntsville, but
it's a need worldwide, so the goal is to help as many as we
can, open as many chapters as we can, and get as many young
people as we can get involved.
(leafblower whizzing)
I'm ready now, tell ya, I'm ready now.
(light piano music)
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