I'm Jeffery Loring, owner of Stitch It & Co Tailoring. One of our wonderful tailors, Natalia, has been through unimaginable trauma in the last year. After her son went missing during the conflict in Ukraine, she traveled there only to find that he had been killed. Not long after she returned to the US, her younger son was walking to his job here in Nashville when he was shot and robbed.

The shooting left him paralyzed from the neck down. After spending five months in the hospital, Natalia brought him to her home so she could care for him. Natalia works extremely hard and is a brilliant and dedicated tailor, as well as being one of the kindest people I've ever known.

Her son's medical bills are astronomical, and she's having a very difficult time paying for the basic necessities for her and her son. I'm hoping to raise money to help alleviate her medical expenses, as well as provide her with a handicap-accessible van so she can drive her son to his many doctor's appointments and other errands. Any amount of money that you can contribute would be so helpful in easing their burdens.