Operation Furnish

600 Wilson Creek Parkway,McKinney TX 75069

22 January, 2022

Description

With this fundraising event we have the opportunity to showcase community coming together to support another family within the community. In May of 2021, Jacklyn Radway was shot by her ex boyfriend in her own home in front of their children. Jacklyn and her ex were together about 13 years, having 4 children together. After years of domestic abuse and infidelity, she finally decided that it was time for her to part ways and give her kids a better life. Months after moving into her next home, an unexpected fire started and burnt that house down. After living in a shelter for about three months, she finally got the keys to her own three bedroom apartment for her 6 kids. Shortly after moving in, her ex boyfriend arrived at the apartment with a bag in hand. As she asked him to help her buy some bunk beds for the kids as they had nowhere to sleep, he pulled out a gun and shot her in the chest. While her kids stood there crying, she tried to unlock the door and he held her screaming until neighbors came to the door and he fled. Jacklyn says she struggles to this day from PTSD and it affects her daily life while she’s at home and out in public. She has struggled with depression and anxiety for years now, and now along with the PTSD and disability it has made being a single mother almost impossible. Her kids ages are 5,6,7,8 go to Caldwell along with an 17 year old daughter who attends Boyd High School. Briidge The Gap along with individual volunteers and other community-based organizations have come together to create an event to raise funds to support this family in need. Our goal is to raise $5,000 for the family to help buy much needed furniture. We will be raising this money through donations Gofundme page as well as through digital payments on the day of the event. Please come out and support this wonderful family and help raise awareness of our gofundme in order to get as many donations as possible. Let’s show them what McKinney is all about. The inherent goal of Bridge the Gap is to appeal to the hearts and minds of individuals in a way that invites them to engage in open discussion and conversation on matters such as racial equity , as well as devoting focus to socioeconomic advancement by way of STEM and what that could mean for lower income community members, further advancing these exact efforts in ways that bring communities together and foster real connections. Each and every Briidge The Gap event aims to deliver good experiences and positive feelings unto community members that attend. Each event touches on specific messages that we want to imprint on the community as a whole, yet always allowing for the community to engage with these discussions and intertwine ideas on whats best for the community, as a community.