Coyote Attack Victim Needs Your Help!
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Rev. Olivia Armstrong is a life-long social justice advocate, a beloved and respected community activist, a healer and herbalist, and Director of a small non-profit called the Rainbow Healing Center. A little while ago she moved from Ithaca, NY to Columbia, SC where she has already organized a new community garden and a new food pantry at her apartment complex. She also grows, harvests and packages medicinal herbs which she sells to support the work of the Rainbow Healing Center.
Early on the morning of Sunday, September 1, Ms. Olivia was standing on her front porch, talking with a few neighbors. Suddenly she felt a stab at the back of her leg and turned around to see a wild coyote locked on to her leg by the teeth. Her neighbors yelled at her, “Run Ms. Olivia! Run!” She began running down the walkway but “the coyote was right on me.” She tripped and fell hard on the pavement, breaking her wrist and smashing her right foot. The coyote kept on biting her leg and it's a miracle it didn’t go for her head or face.
Thankfully, a neighbor grabbed a stick and started hitting the coyote. The coyote turned and began to go after the neighbor, who lured him away from Ms. Olivia, and was also bitten. Another neighbor had jumped up on top of a nearby car and was calling 911. Ms. Olivia crawled over to the car, bleeding, but was too badly injured to climb up to safety. Then she heard 5 gunshots as the coyote was finally killed. She waited by the car until EMS came to transport her to the hospital.
The coyote tested positive for rabies.
Ms. Olivia requires 24 hour care for at least the next 10 days while her wounds are healing and she is undergoing treatment for rabies. She is currently being cared for by family members at their home, but she needs to return to her own home as soon as possible.
She is asking for help with the costs of home care, and the medical supplies and other related expenses needed for her recovery. She also needs help making up for the income that will be lost over the next many weeks while she is unable to harvest and process medicinal herbs. Any funds raised over and above basic expenses will be donated to the non-profit Rainbow Healing Center to support the expansion of the RHC Community Garden and its programs.
Thank you for supporting Reverend Olivia Armstrong and her work with the Rainbow Healing Center.
Early on the morning of Sunday, September 1, Ms. Olivia was standing on her front porch, talking with a few neighbors. Suddenly she felt a stab at the back of her leg and turned around to see a wild coyote locked on to her leg by the teeth. Her neighbors yelled at her, “Run Ms. Olivia! Run!” She began running down the walkway but “the coyote was right on me.” She tripped and fell hard on the pavement, breaking her wrist and smashing her right foot. The coyote kept on biting her leg and it's a miracle it didn’t go for her head or face.
Thankfully, a neighbor grabbed a stick and started hitting the coyote. The coyote turned and began to go after the neighbor, who lured him away from Ms. Olivia, and was also bitten. Another neighbor had jumped up on top of a nearby car and was calling 911. Ms. Olivia crawled over to the car, bleeding, but was too badly injured to climb up to safety. Then she heard 5 gunshots as the coyote was finally killed. She waited by the car until EMS came to transport her to the hospital.
The coyote tested positive for rabies.
Ms. Olivia requires 24 hour care for at least the next 10 days while her wounds are healing and she is undergoing treatment for rabies. She is currently being cared for by family members at their home, but she needs to return to her own home as soon as possible.
She is asking for help with the costs of home care, and the medical supplies and other related expenses needed for her recovery. She also needs help making up for the income that will be lost over the next many weeks while she is unable to harvest and process medicinal herbs. Any funds raised over and above basic expenses will be donated to the non-profit Rainbow Healing Center to support the expansion of the RHC Community Garden and its programs.
Thank you for supporting Reverend Olivia Armstrong and her work with the Rainbow Healing Center.
Co-organizers (2)
Joanna Green
Organizer
Newfield, NY
Natalie Jane
Co-organizer