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Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith,The Independent
Tue, Mar 15 2:28 AM PDT
A woman has helped to change a homeless man’s
life in a matter of months by setting up a Facebook page, after
discovering why he stood on the same street corner every day.
Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith,The Independent
Tue, Mar 15 2:28 AM PDTGinger Sprouse, who runs Art of the Meal in Clear Lake, Texas, drove past 32-year-old Victor Hubbard on the corner of El Camino Real and Nasa Road 1 four times a day, no matter the weather.
The corner was the last place Mr Hubbard saw his mother and he would wait there for her to return. He was homeless and suffering from mental health issues when Ms Sprouse first started first started to offer him help, and had been waiting on the corner for three years.
“I began to get more and more concerned as I knew winter was coming and I thought, ‘So what’s going to happen now?’” Ms Sprouse told MyBayArea Radio, explaining that she had started visiting Mr Hubbard on her lunch break and they had struck up a friendship. “So he and I started talking about maybe how would he feel about sometimes coming to my house to get out of the bad weather, and that’s how we started.
“It’s been quite the journey,” she said.
She created a Facebook page called "This is Victor”
as a way for the community to get to know Mr Hubbard better and to take
part in getting him the help he needed. In her first post Ms Sprouse
wrote: “I drove by Victor’s corner at least four times a day. I listen
to people talking around town and keep hearing, ‘Someone needs to do
something about that guy’. So, I will be the organiser and hope that we
as a community can be ‘someone’ together.”
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