A homeless 73-year-old woman has been
given a place to stay in Chester after a huge response to a post
about her on Facebook.
The elderly lady entered The Share Shop in Chester to ask if
they had any ‘suspended coffees’ available. They did and the
member of staff got talking to her and found out that she had been
sleeping in her car with everything she owned since the end of
November after being evicted from her home in Northwich.
The Share Shop posted about the lady's
plight on Facebook and it was shared over 1,700 times, with the
result that Chester Aid to the Homeless came forward and found a flat
in the city centre for her.
The Chester Chronicle reported that
Adam Dandy, co-founder of the Northgate Street charity shop, said
their page was ‘inundated’ with offers to give her a place to
stay:
“The response was amazing, I think about 90,000 people have seen the post. As soon as we put it out the page was inundated, we had people offering their spare rooms, money and even for her to have Sunday roast with their families.”
“The response was amazing, I think about 90,000 people have seen the post. As soon as we put it out the page was inundated, we had people offering their spare rooms, money and even for her to have Sunday roast with their families.”
Lovely human story, just shows compassion is alive and well.
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