It has been a busy week for the foundation. We funded two more families this week.
The first we can’t talk about but it was directly in our Mission focus and the family will have one less expense to worry about.
The second family, a young couple with their first child, had a son named Andrew. Andrew was born with a rare disease that is described as Monosomy of his 10th Chromosome. As you can imagine, this leads to a number of physical problems, surgeries, medications and hospitalization. Andrew has been in the NICU since June 8 with no forecast when he might come home.
This young couple worked two jobs to buy all the baby things they needed to bring their new little one home. As fate would have it, their rental apartment had some landlord problems and became infested with insects and rodents. They were forced to move out and, because of the infestation they had to throw out all the baby things they had purchased.
A family member stepped in and helped them with a temporary place to live as well as paid for their move to a new apartment along with their security deposit and first months rent. We were contacted by the Social Worker as the family was not able to fund a replacement of the baby things.
The Social Worker arranged for the family to go to Target to set up a baby registry. They picked replacements for all that they had lost and the Foundation paid for the products so that, when Andrew comes home, they would be ready.
We once again are humbled by the challenges faced every day by these special needs families and are thankful that our donors have allowed us to step in and ease the challenges faced by these families. Your graciousness and kindness will be forever appreciated.