Fight for Good series: Single mother vs. Hurricane Irma
Poverty is an everyday battle. People experiencing poverty are not without hope – their lives are just harder than they should be. But, The Salvation Army is helping to make their lives a little easier, thanks to your gifts of time and money. The Fight for Good series aims to show how by following individuals through one of their daily poverty battles. Here is one such example.
Single Mother vs. Hurricane Irma
A single mother named Joan recently left Minnesota to live in Florida but had to come right back in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.
The distraught woman came to The Salvation Army with a long list of needs for herself and her kids. Our social workers gave her everything she needed, including food, school supplies, diapers, and winter coats.
Joan also received tickets to the Crayola Experience at Mall of America. Our social workers figured that she and her kids would enjoy doing something fun together to take their minds off the trauma they’d experienced. Joan was so grateful for everything.
Join the Fight for Good
Thankfully, there’s an Army – made up of people just like you – that seeks to start seeing the poverty that has always existed around them.
If you desire to do something good, to further a cause you care about, to join the battle against poverty – here are three simple ways to join us in the fight for good:
- Donate at a red kettle or online. Fight poverty one dollar and one coin at a time by giving each time you pass a red kettle (later this month), or support your local Salvation Army through an online donation.
- Become a volunteer bell ringer. Join the fight against poverty by giving your time as a red kettle bell ringer. Kettles with volunteer ringers raise double the amount of funds that support our poverty-fighting programs.
- Recruit your own army. The fight for good needs soldiers. Recruit others to join the fight for good by setting up a fundraiser and sharing your passion for helping others on RedKettleReason.org.
The scenario described above is about a real person helped by The Salvation Army Northern Division. Names were changed to protect the individual’s privacy.