Now here is a campaign to get behind. This white man cares enough to actually take on the responsibility of another family. They've been living in the woods for three weeks in Idaho and have already been through a couple of snowstorms, they're homeless. These are white people, so you know damn well it isn't because they're lazy welfare recipients. Besides, lazy welfare recipients never are without homes, food, health care, etc... that's only for down and out whites with nobody to turn to.
VIDEO HERE. I called the reporter on this story, Josh Barlow and he told me that SEICAA had set up a collection. Call SEICAA at 1-208-234-0966. OR you can call the mans business in Idaho, Emergency Supply Depot, 208-478-4455 and offer to buy something from him.You know damn well that if this family had been Latino or black, there'd be dozens of collections going on right now. Here is a white family with 14 white kids that needs help. Let's help them.
If you can't spare a few minutes of your time and at least $5.00 for this family, you ain't much of a white man.
Here is SEICAA's website
UPDATE! [October 19, 2007]
Here is the most recent information I have on donating money to the Armstrong family.I just got off the telephone with "Rhonda" at SEICAA, which is in fact a state agency, something like the South eastern Idaho Community Action. She told me that anything sent to the Armstrong family will be given to James Armstrong and that the state of Idaho will NOT appropriate any of it for any reason. Rhonda can be contcated at 1-208-234-0966.
The address she gave me to send donations to is:
SEICAA in c/o the Armstrong family
641 N 8th ave
Pocatello, Idaho
83201
Rhonda told me to write SEICAA on the check itself with a note under purpose "for the Armstrong family."Having said that, I doubt they won't turn over checks to Mr. Armstrong himself, so if you're of the mind that you won't send SEICAA a check, fill it out to James Armstrong.Homeless Family Living in Woods
The cost of opening a new business has left three adults and 14 children from Pocatello homeless and living in tents in the woods for the past three weeks. With the cold weather, this hardship is about to get worse for the two families living in tents in the Mink Creek area.
James Armstrong, father: "Well, we're actually living an emergency. We're up in the canyon trying to take care of ourselves."
James Armstrong's family was forced to move out of their home and into the woods after he opened an emergency supply business in town.
James Armstrong, father: "I couldn't get any funding for this and it put me in a bind, so I had to move out of a house I was renting."
Armstrong now spends the days working at his store, but then heads back to the campsite at night to be with his 10 children - and another family with five children that he is helping take care of with the help of his wife and oldest daughter Rachel.
Rachel Armstrong, daughter: "Put all your layers on - put all that on before you get out or else you're gonna get really cold."
Armstrong says the kids are adjusting to the cold weather. He says they have plenty of supplies, blankets, and food that was prepared before they left their home.
But while they have already endured two snowstorms and two rainstorms, Armstrong hopes they find a permanent place to live before it snows and gets too cold for the younger children.
James Armstrong, father :"Shelter - permanent shelter - is where we have the problem. You know, rent for 10 to 14 kids and a family is rather high, and being a start-up business, I can't afford $1200 a month rent."
Armstrong also said that all the kids are being home-schooled and have been for several years. He says he spoke with SEICAA Wednesday and they hope to have the two families moved into a trailer by the end of the week.
If you can help these families in any way, you can call the Southeastern Idaho Community Action Agency at (208) 234-0966.
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