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Donate to Homeless Couple, 70s, Need Immediate Financial Assistance!, organized by Bill Sparkes

I have started this fundraiser for Lynn and Kay Shelton, who are homeless and living in their car in Tucson, Arizona. They need immediate financial assistance. I discovered them on a Street Photographers group I follow on Facebook. While being homeless himself, he photographs other homeless people, and has quite a talent. Their story, in his own words, is below: Donate what you can, and please share it. I am 73 years old and my wife is 71. We are both medically frail and disabled, but she is much more frail than me. We have been homeless and living in our car since the first week of August, 2024, about six months. We became homeless when the rent for our apartment was raised so high we could not afford to pay anymore and had to vacate our home. We only have the car, a 2014 Buick Encore, because my Aunt passed away in June of last year and had arranged to have me inherit the car. Without the car we would probably already both be dead. We are not homeless by choice and do not have drug or alcohol problems. We are both retired and have small retirement incomes, but not enough to pay the move-in costs for another apartment, if we can find one with rent that we can afford. All of our income is required to keep us alive in the car. We sleep in our car in a public park parking lot and on streets in residential neighborhoods. We need assistance with funds to helps us acquire a small efficiency or studio apartment, some basic furniture such as a bed, a couple of chairs, and a small table, and to have repairs done on our car. Our car's air conditioner stopped working a couple of months ago and we live in the Arizona desert. Spring is coming soon and the car will become a death trap, especially if we have to continue to sleep in it. My very rough estimate of what we need to obtain an apartment and have critically needed repairs done on the car is between $5,000 and $6,000. This would help us to obtain an apartment and furniture and get the car repaired. I believe in angels. They are the people who help others who are not able to help themselves. We are hoping and praying that some of them will help us, for which we will be eternally grateful. Lynn and Kay Shelton Tucson, Arizona Read more

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