Michael Airhart began his life’s work as an eight-year-old in a single-parent apartment in the projects on the South Side of Chicago. It was there he learned to cook and he learned to sew. Most importantly, he learned to provide for himself, two brothers and others in the city’s largest public housing development, Altgeld Gardens. Today he provides services to uplift the homeless on the street and those living in shelters to become contributing citizens by providing hot food, clothing, hygiene items, and social services.