Challenges pile up for mom, who asks Goodfellows for help to buy shoes and clothes

Ramonica isn’t asking for much, just a little something to bring some joy and comfort to her children this holiday season.

Between the loss of a loved one, a financial hardship created by the COVID-19 pandemic and numerous other challenges she didn’t see coming, it’s been hard to maintain optimism. Yet, every day she remains humble and thankful.

”If we were to be so lucky to get blessed with clothes and shoes for the holidays, that will mean a lot to me as a mother because I would know that my kids have some of the things that they need and not be so stressed out but things that I can’t really afford for them right now,” she wrote simply in her letter to the Goodfellows Fund.

When life’s confrontations seem too daunting, a little help can go a long way.

Goodfellows is there to help as they have been for well over a century. Once again this year the Star-Telegram charity has a goal of helping 12,000 children in need in Tarrant County have a joyful holiday by providing a $50 tax-free gift certificate for each child for new trendy clothing from Old Navy Stores.

”I would like to say thank you in advance for giving us this opportunity,” Ramonica said.

About the Goodfellows Fund

The story on the Goodfellows website describes its beginning as an offshoot of the first newspaper charity drive in the United States, started by the Chicago Tribune on Dec. 10, 1909. A Chicago city attorney wrote a letter challenging his friends to donate the money they would have spent on holiday partying to charity.

A couple years later, the Advertising Club of Fort Worth staged the first local Goodfellows campaign. On the day after Thanksgiving in 1912, Publisher Amon G. Carter brought the tradition to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

To find out more, visit goodfellowfundfw.com. The new post office box for donations and correspondence is P.O. Box 149, Fort Worth, TX. 76101.