Christmas is a challenge for couple unable to work. They hope Goodfellows can help
Life has left Ana and her husband with the inability to work. The adoption subsidy they receive for their children helps them get by, but Christmas — which should be a time of joy for children — is a challenge for her family and many others.
Her husband was working before he had a stroke in May. Then, he contracted COVID-19, and the combination of the two has left him unable to work.
Ana herself has a disability that prevents her from working.
Between themselves, their children and a new grandbaby born to her daughter in June, there are eight people in the house.
Goodfellows is there once again this year to help families such as Ana’s. The Star-Telegram charity has a goal of helping 12,000 children in need in Tarrant County have a joyful holiday by providing a $50 tax-free gift certificate for each child for new trendy clothing from Old Navy Stores.
“It has been difficult, but we thank God he is always there for our family,” Ana said.
About the Goodfellows Fund
The story on the Goodfellows website describes its beginning as an offshoot of the first newspaper charity drive in the United States, started by the Chicago Tribune on Dec. 10, 1909. A Chicago city attorney wrote a letter challenging his friends to donate the money they would have spent on holiday partying to charity.
A couple years later, the Advertising Club of Fort Worth staged the first local Goodfellows campaign. On the day after Thanksgiving in 1912, Publisher Amon G. Carter brought the tradition to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
To find out more, visit goodfellowfundfw.com. The new post office box for donations and correspondence is P.O. Box 149, Fort Worth, TX. 76101.
