Ginny & Rick Hurricane Relief
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Our Friends, Ginny Guild and Rick Gantly, Need Our Help
Ginny and Rick, long time social justice activists, live in Panama City, Florida. Ginny, a Massachusetts native, worked as a young person in Louisville with Carl and Anne Braden at the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF) and then in Boston against the racist onslaught around the busing crisis, organizing her healthcare workplace, and building the movement against the Vietnam War. Eventually she went back to school, earning a masters degree in social work, spending years in community development.
Rick dropped out of high school and became active in the anti-war and civil rights movements in Louisville. After working in a number of different southern cities as a printer, a union activist and deck hand on the Ohio River, and an over-the-road truck driver, he rented a tiny house on the Apalachicola Bay. Shortly after meeting Ginny, he moved to Boston where he studied at UMass Boston and went on to become a postal worker, applying for a transfer back to the Florida panhandle where they purchased a small house in Panama City. There they continued to work against racism and for numerous progressive candidates.
Rick was diagnosed with renal (kidney) failure over four years ago for which he was receiving dialysis treatment. Recently doctors found he also has small cell lung cancer, for which he was also being treated. They were not able to evacuate because of what has become Rick’s precarious medical condition.
The good news is that they and their house survived most of the horrible destruction of Hurricane Michael. However, a neighbor’s tree fell through their roof and fixing the roof will take money which is in tight supply because of medical expenses.
They are presently without power, but just recovered cell phone service. They make daily trips to a dialysis center where Rick receives two hours of treatment. He had been on dialysis six hours every other day prior to the storm. His health condition is deteriorating. He is unable to obtain cancer treatment. Their local hospital was knocked out by the hurricane.
Perhaps you have worked with Ginny or Rick in the past, or were in organizations with them. Or perhaps, you would simply like to target your help for the victims of the hurricane to a politically progressive and active couple.
Please help us show them that they are not alone. We have set up a YouCare account to help them recover with a goal of $20,000 (which will be adjusted up or down as we better identify their needs).
Whatever you can donate will be appreciated.
Who are we?
Bob and David Guild (Ginny's brothers in NJ and MA)
Susie Stanton (friend of theirs in FL)
Jan Phillips (longtime friend in Louisville)
Judith & Jay Schaffner (longtime friends in NYC)
Michael Eisenscher (longtime friend in CA)
Dale Mitchell (longtime friend in MA)
Joy Portugal (longtime friend in NYC)
Marilyn Albert (National Nurses United former staff in CA)
Janice Albert (friend in CA)
Ginny and Rick, long time social justice activists, live in Panama City, Florida. Ginny, a Massachusetts native, worked as a young person in Louisville with Carl and Anne Braden at the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF) and then in Boston against the racist onslaught around the busing crisis, organizing her healthcare workplace, and building the movement against the Vietnam War. Eventually she went back to school, earning a masters degree in social work, spending years in community development.
Rick dropped out of high school and became active in the anti-war and civil rights movements in Louisville. After working in a number of different southern cities as a printer, a union activist and deck hand on the Ohio River, and an over-the-road truck driver, he rented a tiny house on the Apalachicola Bay. Shortly after meeting Ginny, he moved to Boston where he studied at UMass Boston and went on to become a postal worker, applying for a transfer back to the Florida panhandle where they purchased a small house in Panama City. There they continued to work against racism and for numerous progressive candidates.
Rick was diagnosed with renal (kidney) failure over four years ago for which he was receiving dialysis treatment. Recently doctors found he also has small cell lung cancer, for which he was also being treated. They were not able to evacuate because of what has become Rick’s precarious medical condition.
The good news is that they and their house survived most of the horrible destruction of Hurricane Michael. However, a neighbor’s tree fell through their roof and fixing the roof will take money which is in tight supply because of medical expenses.
They are presently without power, but just recovered cell phone service. They make daily trips to a dialysis center where Rick receives two hours of treatment. He had been on dialysis six hours every other day prior to the storm. His health condition is deteriorating. He is unable to obtain cancer treatment. Their local hospital was knocked out by the hurricane.
Perhaps you have worked with Ginny or Rick in the past, or were in organizations with them. Or perhaps, you would simply like to target your help for the victims of the hurricane to a politically progressive and active couple.
Please help us show them that they are not alone. We have set up a YouCare account to help them recover with a goal of $20,000 (which will be adjusted up or down as we better identify their needs).
Whatever you can donate will be appreciated.
Who are we?
Bob and David Guild (Ginny's brothers in NJ and MA)
Susie Stanton (friend of theirs in FL)
Jan Phillips (longtime friend in Louisville)
Judith & Jay Schaffner (longtime friends in NYC)
Michael Eisenscher (longtime friend in CA)
Dale Mitchell (longtime friend in MA)
Joy Portugal (longtime friend in NYC)
Marilyn Albert (National Nurses United former staff in CA)
Janice Albert (friend in CA)
Co-organizers (6)
Michael Eisenscher
Organizer
Oakland, CA
David Guild
Beneficiary
Bob Guild
Co-organizer
Marilyn Albert
Co-organizer
Dale Mitchell
Co-organizer
Judith Schaffner
Co-organizer