Believe Project: $100 to a friend with disabilities who needs a new pair of custom shoes
Today's winner of a $100 bill through the Believe Project is Lynne Bryant of Palatine.
Here is an excerpt of her pitch:
"There is a woman I met at the Palatine Library about seven years ago when we both lost our jobs. We kept running into each other there and became friends. This woman is severely handicapped. In a conversation with her one day, she told me that she had a stroke at the age of 28 that pretty much paralyzed her whole left side. She has great difficulty walking and uses a cane and is quite physically impaired. Her special shoes cost $200. I was so overcome with emotion at how this woman has dealt with her handicap for all these years and she could barely type given one good hand, but there she was, giving it her best shot. I offered to help her, but being the proud woman that she is she declined my offer. I just found out that she was in the hospital for an infection and soon after she was released she fell and broke an elbow. I would like to see her get the $100 to put toward a pair of new shoes."
• The Believe Project mails a $100 bill each day to someone with a good idea for how to use it to do a good deed for someone else.