The Impact of Your Donations
Neighbors feel the benefit of your donations in many ways.
2024
Stories of
hope
A 49-year-old mom raising her high school age daughter called Deep Well’s Livable Housing home repair team when she suspected she had a serious roof issue. After a visit from the Deep Well construction coordinator to assess the home that was overall well-cared for, it was determined that a whole new roof was needed—no way to patch the damage. Deep Well also discovered that the back steps to exit the home were in such poor condition they were unusable, meaning the home only had one safe way in or out, a potentially very serious hazard. Because mom works full-time and has a solid income, the family was able to cover part of the cost of the roof and step repairs themselves, with Deep Well gifting the remainder of the cost.
Deep Well’s food pantry is open five days a week, provides a full week of groceries to registered shoppers as often as one visit every three weeks… and is a happy outing for many of the senior citizens it serves. One duo who visits monthly to stretch their small household budgets is Annie and Maud. Annie is 84 years old, doesn’t drive, but lives independently in her modest apartment. She catches a ride to the pantry with her friend Maud, who is the youngster at 72. The ladies book their food pantry appointment, arrive together and peruse the aisles carefully to select the food items they need for their upcoming week’s planned meals. They delight when they find unique or unusual items on the shelves, and have a grand time chatting and visiting with each other and the pantry volunteers. They always express their appreciation for how the pantry frees up money in their small budgets so they can cover other costs like prescriptions and utility bills when we have temperature spikes. The social aspects of Annie and Maud’s monthly visits are as important as the nutritional support they receive, and Deep Well’s volunteers look forward to their visits to catch up and have a nice chat.
Roberta is 73 years old, lives alone and is retired with a very modest social security income. She was having excruciating dental pain, so severe it was impacting her overall health. After visiting the Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Health Center’s dental clinic, it was determined that Roberta needed to have a lot of teeth extracted and new dentures made. Roberta came up with the funds to cover the cost of the extractions, and then Deep Well covered most of the cost of making her new dentures, upper and lower. Roberta is no longer dealing with the debilitating dental pain and is happy to have her new teeth.