Single mom injured in car accident hopes Goodfellows can help her children
Brittney is happy just to be alive. She is excited to see another holiday season and share it with her two children, to whom she is a single mother, something that almost didn’t happen.
Brittney was recently in a car accident. She survived, but experienced spinal injuries and is only now beginning to moving around again. It’s tough, but she prefers to look at the positive, being there for her children and bringing them a joyful Christmas.
“My children have been very supportive of me during my recovery and I would like to show my appreciation for what they have done for me,” she said.
The Goodfellow Fund can help with that. The Star-Telegram charity has been doing this for families facing financial hardships for more than a century.
This year they are providing families with a $100 gift card to Old Navy, twice the amount of previous years to compensate for rising costs.
“I can’t work right now and I should be taking care of them and not the other way around,” Brittney said. “I just want to do something nice for them.”
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 goodfellowfund.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.