Support rolls in for family hit by flood, fire
In the hours following the Courier & Press about the story - and needs - Friday morning Velvet Lashley, and his two children, who lost their first home in New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina and Week in their country of origin to the late Evansville, Offers of aid has been paid from a large community.
Contributions of about $ 2300 were sent to the family Lashley Relief Fund at Fifth Third Bank; Ivy Tech Community College, which handles Lashley, has replaced books and extends a scholarship, the hotel, where the Red Cross was for the payment of extending their stay Your time is here - at no charge, and others have proposed, food, clothing and furniture.
“It is surprising to me. It really is, “Lashley said Friday afternoon.” It’s a stroke of luck that everybody wants to help. ”
In the history of Friday, in the context Lashley had, she was angry, sad and confused after the fire, apparently at the end of his route.
“I am lost. I do not know what to do”, she had said.
In humans, it helps Friday afternoon, Lashley linked, as it was uncertain after his first sensation of Ivy Tech half of this year. She went to her counsel for the conduct of the school plans to meet their classes online.
“He looked to the notes, I was, and said that he simply could not what I do,” she said. “He encouraged me. He said:” You should be here. ”
Even if they feel overwhelmed by the single mother of two was the A and B in their studies at a Legal paradise, it took the council Counselor.
But his books have been lost and their computers damaged in the Monday night fire at his home on 1703 Delmar Ave.
But the manuals were only a part of their concerns in the fire. The fire caused a value of 50000 dollars in damage that so few that Lashley and her two children - Rich, 10, and Jessica, 6 - take advantage. She had no insurance.
After the fire, Lashley has received assistance from the South Western Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross.
And Friday, Ivy Tech added help them replace their books and give them a $ 1500 scholarship, they can when buying a new computer and printer, and you will get connected to the Internet, if it notes, the new Housing, said Rachel Rawlinson, Ivy Tech spokesman.
Lashley, 32, was not a stranger to the loss of their lives. Born in Evansville, she grew up in Texas and New Orleans, where they lived until she was 16 years old. It was when her mother was murdered, and they still live in Evansville.
In 2005, Lashley has again after Louisiana, where only a few weeks before Hurricane Katrina, she and her second husband, and then to find a new home. The family has left the city on the eve of the hurricane. Then they realised that their house has been completely emptied, most of their possessions lost.
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