After living almost four months with little food and no electricity in a bus that constantly broke down, a family finally has a place to call home.
Virginia Kinch and her family helped the homeless family move into the Kinches’ old house in central Greeley on Saturday after the two families first met Thanksgiving night.
It started in September. Kinch was clearing out her basement and posting old things for sale on Craigslist. She started getting responses from single mothers and others who said they couldn’t afford to pay but would be happy to exchange work. Kinch had a better idea: “Take what you need.”
The generosity kept growing from there. On Thanksgiving, Kinch, with her husband and three teen girls, handed out meals to the homeless near the Kinches’ home in Longmont. They knew there were homeless people living in a bus behind a nearby gas station, but they were shocked to find a family that looked a lot like their own: a mother, a father and three little girls, ages 5, 14 months and 4 weeks.
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