Grandmother trying to stretch her fixed income asks Goodfellows for help

Lashea is a single mother of three and grandmother of two. She is on a fixed income of $894 a month from Social Security and life is simply hard. She escaped a toxic person in their life, she said, even moving from another state to start anew.

But starting over requires more than courage. It requires money, something Lashea and her children are sorely lacking at the moment.

”We do not have a car. We have to use Uber to get around and go to doctor’s appointments,” she said. “We don’t get out much due to fear and depression.”

They do not have enough money to buy food and household items. She goes to food banks and churches for food. She admits to a lot of worrying and crying.

Goodfellows wants to help. The Star-Telegram charity has a goal of helping 12,000 children in need in Tarrant County experience some joy this holiday season. They are providing a $50 tax-free gift certificate for each child for new trendy clothing from Old Navy Stores.

”We are sleeping on an air mattress. Due to lack of income we are sitting in patio chairs in our living room. Anything will help. We will take any blessing we can get,” she 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.