
Help our friends Joey and Lori Bracken relocate
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Our good friends Joey and Lori Bracken need our help. They have no money and they are soon to be evicted from their home with little or no help and nowhere to go. During the pandemic, Joey and Lori began thinking of others. Joey being a musician, had an idea and began raising money doing live streams and raised over €500 alone and donated it to the soup kitchen for the homeless at Cafe Y Calor. Two weeks after that, Joey spoke to his friend David Timmons about it and they began recruiting entertainers on the island of Lanzarote to do a marathon gig and donate all proceeds to Emerlan which they accomplished beyond expectations raising over 53k with the help and generosity of a community in Lanzarote and their fans online. Unbeknownst to others that during this time, Joey and Lori fell into more and more debt as they were both unemployed with no hope of getting work in and falling into arrears on rent. They applied for all forms of assistance offered by the Spanish government, including rent relief, but the system is on the verge of collapse and has been very slow to release funds to the people who have applied and have also made it next to impossible to apply for them. Office closures, call centres jammed, websites crashing/offline. . They have continuously tried to fight their case and get some help from the Spanish government and even had the issue raised in the Dail in Ireland. They currently receive €20 between them from the Spanish social welfare and survive solely on the live streams that Joey plays once or twice a week. They both suffer from chronic health conditions. Joey has diabetes, heart problems, kidney problems, emphysema and suffers from depression. Lori has scoliosis, rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica, as well as severe anxiety and depression. They need our help please donate if you can. No donation is too small
Organizer and beneficiary
Stephen Leeson
Organizer
Lori Duffy
Beneficiary