Save of the Day: 12-Year-Old Boy Fights Grandma’s Foreclosure (and Wins)
When 72-year-old Janice Sparkhawk’s “local representative, governor [and] the president” could not help her find a program to save her home, she turned to an unexpected resource: her pre-teen grandson. And surprisingly, it worked out pretty well. Sparhawk’s grandson, Noah, raised $10,500 in small donations to bring his grandmother’s mortgage payments up to date in just one month using his website, titled “Noah’s Dream Catcher Network.” He has previously used the website, which he started when he was nine in response to a challenge from his mother to do one community service project a year, to collect money for a food bank and put on a picnic for veterans[1]. He wrote on the website that his grandmother’s house would be “foreclosed on at an auction on Feb 15th” and pointed out that “if I have 400 friends give $25.00 I can give her back her home for Valentine’s Day!!!”[2].
Sparhawk fell behind on her payments on the 100-year-old home after she borrowed against equity to fix the roof and make other repairs, then had eye surgery and was unable to work. She is well-known in the community for fostering “hundreds of children” and expects to be able to make future payments due to her current part-time job. Noah’s website currently posts the “dream” as a goal that has been met and encourages people to work within their own communities to make a difference. His mother has stated he will probably not take on additional foreclosure prevention efforts. Future donations will “go towards a few of my next small projects,” Noah writes.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Save of the Day: 12-Year-Old Boy Fights Grandma’s Foreclosure (and Wins)
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