Mom who escaped domestic violence asks Goodfellows to help bring cheer for the holidays
Christmas should be a time of joy and happiness. For some, however, like Alicia and her children, the search for such can be extremely challenging during a quest to simply survive.
“My kids and I are currently in a domestic violence shelter,” she said. “We have been having a really hard time since last year in April. Hoping to be able to get housing soon for me and my kids.”
Alicia and her children have been surviving as best they could, staying with others as often as possible. The rest of the time they lived in a tent on the streets, and now in their current housing situation, still waiting for someone to come to their rescue.
All to escape domestic violence.
The Goodfellow Fund can help bring some cheer and positivity to the holidays. The Star-Telegram charity has been helping families for more than a century.
This season they are providing $100 gift cards for clothing to Old Navy stories. To help with increased costs of goods in today’s society, it’s double the amount of previous years.
“Praying that this will be over soon and we will be in our own home soon,” Alicia said.
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.
New and additional donors are welcome and needed to help cover the cost of doubling the gift card amount.
New and additional donors are welcome and needed to help cover the cost of doubling the gift card amount.
This story was originally published December 1, 2024 at 6:00 AM.