By Lois Healy | CEO
2020 has been a very trying time, we are seeing wide spread evictions and Foreclosures and families going without food. I received a call from a Veteran that we helped about two years ago. His electric had just been shut off, he was past due on his rent and other utilities and his car was broken down in the parking lot of a Supermarket. I asked him for his account number for his electric bill and the address where he was living and since he was one of our previous clients I had all of his pertinent information. He had applied for Cares Act Funding for his rent and utilities but they were very slow in processing his paperwork. I had a connection with the Cares Funding so I called them and let them know his electric had been shut off and his landlord was ready to evict him and they were able to connect with the landlord and pay the rent and other past due utilities.
Because the electric had been shut off and there were little children in the house I knew he could not wait to have his electric turned back on, so I called the electric company and paid the Electric Bill ($495.00) The Veteran then told me his vehicle was broken down in the supermarket parking lot, so I sent one of our Volunteers who is a Veteran to see if he could fix the problem. The Veteran volunteer called me back, the truck needed a new starter so we towed his truck to a repair shop to be fixed ($80.00) I received a call that the starter was going to cost $485 to fix but the car had two other issues it could not shift into park so we asked how that much was and they also told us the vehicle had no brakes, so we fixed that too. Total bill for fixing the truck $1330. The veteran and his family were so grateful as he needs two surgeries on his legs at the VA hospital in Mimai at the end of November and without a Vehicle he would not be able to have the surgeries, take his children to school or go grocery shopping.
Without the assistance of the Veteran's Assistance fund these repairs and assistance with electric would not be possible. Veterans struggle daily with every day issues this fund helps us help them with those struggles
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