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Please Support Sharon’s Urgent Financial Needs

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My name is Roberta Beach and I have started this GoFundMe account for my friend Sharon Holland/Destefano. Sharon is 70 years old. From the age of 3, she was raised in foster care and has experienced low income and poverty most of her life. 

Since 2009 Sharon has worked as a street vendor for the Nashville homeless community’s bi-weekly newspaper The Contributor. Sharon rides the bus daily to stand for hours in the parking lot of the Green Hills Kroger selling the current issue of The Contributor for $2. She accepts all donation amounts. Some days she makes $20, others $50, and on lucky days $100. Her annual income is under $10,000. 

Sharon had been living in a motel room for 16 years paying a weekly $200 rent. In mid-March, after learning the motel was evicting all of its tenants to begin a renovation, we took on the urgent and immediate challenge of finding Sharon safe and clean housing. 

On April 1st we were able to secure an affordable temporary apartment but she still needs help with other basic living expenses including rent, electricity, transportation to work, doctors, health insurance etc. She gets food stamps to help towards her grocery expenses. 

Sharon now has a caseworker at Metro Social Services and we are working on getting her back on Medicaid and Social Security but this could take several months as we are waiting to get her a TN Real ID. 

Now that we have kept Sharon from being homeless, we are working towards getting her employed. She is trained in data entry and would welcome any opportunity to work from home.

It is the little things that are helping her get back on her feet, things like overcoming the obstacles she is facing and the red tape of TN Real ID identification, and the requirements that can only be overcome by being able to navigate the online processes.

Please open your hearts and consider giving to this GoFundMe for Sharon. Your donations will make a real difference in meeting her basic needs!
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    Roberta Beach
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    Nashville, TN
    Sharon Ann Holland
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