SELFLESS ACT-HOMELESS
MAN DONATES $10K TO HELP THE HOMELESS
Talk about having heart
for Jesus and the people of God. A story has been making the round about a
homeless man who was so concern about his life savings to make sure those he
love are okay.
An anonymous homeless
man is being called a hero for donating $10,000 to a shelter just to make sure
his friends are taken care of.
The large donation came
out of the man's residential school settlement money and will be used to fund
the Shelter House's Street Outreach Services program in Ontario, Canada.
When the man shocked
everyone when he took the check to the shelter's office.
"I actually
thought I had misread the cheque… I was floored. The support worker actually
had tears in her eyes!" said Alexandra Calderon, the shelter's development
officer.
Calderon tried to
refuse the check, thinking the homeless man needed it more.
He insisted and said he
just wanted to make sure his friends were safe.
"He has a personal
relationship with a lot of his friends who live at the shelter or who live at
our managed alcohol program so he wanted to make sure that there was someone
that they could call when they needed help," Calderon said.
Shelter House has been
working to raise money since March.
Now, they are half way
to reaching their goal of $200,000
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