"Many are in want of common necessaries; many more are in want of common comforts”. This is a “slightly” edited line from Dicken’s A Christmas Carol describing the plight of so many in 1840 London. Tragically, the statement is as relevant today in 2023 Wilmington as it was two hundred years ago. Your support of 2SHARE this past year through financial donations, furniture donations and volunteer hours has truly been a gift to so many in our community. Through your generosity, we literally are able to get children and adults off the floor and into beds. We provide tables and chairs to eat at and living room furniture to rest on. For the past five years, we have helped to provide the basic comforts of a home, that are too often lacking for so many of our neighbors. Without your help, we would not have been able to do so and we will continue to need your help to do so in the future.
To give you some idea of scope, as of this writing we have 27 households waiting for deliveries. Those households contain 44 adults and 60 children. At the moment, we need 52 beds to meet these requests and many, many other pieces of furniture and basic home goods. These needs can’t be met without your financial support. And we anticipate a 20-25% increase in requests again in 2024.
This past Saturday we made our single largest bed delivery of the year - 14 twins and 5 full-sized beds went to 7 households. Many of these went to children and adults who had been sleeping on the floor. Unfortunately, these most recent bed purchases depleted most of our remaining funds for 2023.
So, if you are considering making tax-deductible donations, as is often the case in December, we hope that you will consider giving to 2SHARE. Our neighbors need our help, especially now. A tax-deductible donation to 2SHARE can be made via PayPal through our website
www.2shareinc.org or via check made out to 2SHARE Inc. and mailed to PO Box 41, Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480.
Every donation of at least $250 means a new, quality twin bed for a child.
November marked our 5th anniversary of operations. Over that time, we have helped well over 500 households, bringing more than 600 beds and more than a thousand other pieces of furniture to those who simply do not have them. So far in 2023, we have delivered more than 200 new beds - purchased at near cost - and hundreds of other basic furnishings to over 200 households. This month alone, we brought furniture to 26 households;
including 36 beds; serving 29 adults and 47 children (ranging from 3 months to 17 years old). The 20 to 25% increase in requirements we have experienced this year, won’t stop just because our funds are thin.
If you need more information please feel free to call or text me, Don Arabian, at 703-220-0762 (c). On behalf of all those we have served in our community and will serve in the future, thank you for your support! We wish you all a wonderful holiday season!
Don Arabian
Exec. Director 2SHARE Inc.
703-220-0762(c)