‘50-Yard Challenge’ Program Empowers Kids to Mow Lawns for Elderly, Give Back to Neighborhood

Rodney Smith Jr., founder of the Raising Men Lawn Care Service program. Courtesy of Rodney Smith Jr.

If Rodney Smith Jr. gets his way, all the boys and girls across America will gain a big brother to look up to—if they pay forward the gesture by mowing lawns for the elderly and disabled.

Born in Bermuda, Smith recalled to The Epoch Times how his parents taught him charity as a boy by taking him out to feed the homeless.