A Wareham woman used her lottery winnings to give a homeless man a place to sleep
Sofia Lorena then set up a GoFundMe page for him.
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Sofia Lorena was so excited when she won $200 on a scratch ticket. And then she saw Glenn Williams, a homeless man shivering in the cold while panhandling by a stop sign in New Bedford, and it was easy to part with the money.
Lorena, a single mom of three from Wareham, first offered to buy Williams a coffee and asked him where he was going to sleep that night, she wrote in a Facebook post. When he said he didn’t know, Lorena called around to local shelters, but they were all full.
“It was then I knew why I won the $200, God placed Glenn in my path for a reason,’’ she wrote.
Lorena paid for him to stay at the Rosewood Inn in Wareham for two nights, she wrote.
Lorena then launched a GoFundMe page to “help give Glenn a second chance.’’ It’s raised more than $14,000 of a $5,000 goal so far.
When people first started hearing about the campaign, they came to help Williams in person. A local barber gave Williams a haircut, residents came by with warm weather gear, and one child even made him a card for him on Sunday that read, “Know that you are loved this Valentine’s Day,’’ according to WCVB.
“There’s a lot of good people in the world,’’ Williams told WCVB. “I’m overwhelmed with all the help, and I just want to thank everybody.’’
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