Single mom starting over needs help from Goodfellows. ‘My babies deserve the world.’
Irene is starting over, which can be hard enough to do alone. For a single mother of two children, failure is not an option.
After years of trying to make a relationship work for the sake of her children, she realized the hopelessness of the situation. She left an abusive situation to find a better life for herself and her children, and while she dreams of a happy future, the present is now presenting new challenges.
Suddenly without a home of their own, she and her children find themselves staying with family as she organizes a plan for moving forward.
“We lost everything we owned,” Irene said. “So anything will be greatly appreciated.
“I love all my babies, no matter what life throws at us, and I won’t ever give up on my babies because at the end that’s all we have. They are the only ones who will love us more than anyone in this world — and I believe my babies deserve the world.”
Well, the Goodfellow Fund can’t give them the world, but it can make it a happier one. It has helped families like Irene’s for more than a century.
This year the Star-Telegram charity has a goal of helping 13,000 children in need in Tarrant County have a joyful Christmas by providing a $50 tax-free gift certificate for each child for new clothing from Old Navy.
“Thank you in advance for letting me share this with you all,” Irene added. “Merry Christmas from my family to yours.”
About the Goodfellow Fund
The story on the Goodfellow 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 Goodfellow 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, or to learn more about helping, visit goodfellowfundfw.com. The post office box for donations and correspondence is P.O. Box 149, Fort Worth, TX. 76101.