Meet Jeff and Lavonne: a recently engaged couple who heard of a woman's struggles and just couldn't get it off their minds and out of their hearts that they decided to do something to make her life better.
Enter Natalie and her 2 children Bienfait and Kesha. Natalie has came to Canada from the Congo (the stories that come out of that region are horrifying). She fled from her home country in an effort to save her children from these horrors. She began working whenever and wherever she could- and hoped to save enough to go to school to be a community support nurse.
Faced with obvious barriers and a lack of funds- Jeff and Lavonne took it personally. They started advocating for Natalie- they spread the word to all their friends and made it their personal goal to see Natalie off to school (and take care of the $20,000 price tag).
Just over a week ago, I recieved this message:
"Well team, I am not sure if this is the last message you will get, but its contains the best news possible.
We have raised all the funds necessary to get Natalie into school, in fact she started today. Lavonne and I went to see her tonight, she is nervous but so excited about the opportunity in front of her. Her tuition and books are payed for and now she can complete her program over the next few months and continue on to a new life, one she never thought would have been possible.
Thank-you to all the people who helped make this possible, through donations of money, time and effort to get the word out and let people know what we were trying to do. Its hard to believe that today has come and she is starting school, its exciting and in many ways humbling that the collective efforts of so many people could be change the path of this family's life.- Jeff and Lavonne"
Incredible.
You may not be able to touch everyone's lives, but this couple who could've been saving for their upcoming wedding thought it more important to change the course of three people's lives...
Regular people doing unbelievable things.
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