REGINA – It’s been three weeks since Global News reported on a Christmas Eve house fire that saw a Regina woman and her family lose everything.
Three weeks later, 2016 is looking like a much better year for Tania Pratt.
“I’m doing a lot better now that I have a home, that burden is off,” she said.
It was a devastating end to 2015 when Pratt came home on Christmas Eve to see the house she was renting up in flames.
“Just everything, like all my stuff like personal pictures that I can’t get back.” Pratt said at the time crying. “All the kids gifts for the four kids and my granddaughter, everything is just gone.”
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Since then, Pratt has been able to find a new home and has her family including her daughter and granddaughter back under one roof.
“Things that are mine are the dishes basically. Everything else my landlord has brought in for me to use until I get my own things,” explained Pratt.
But since airing her story, community groups have been steadily planning to help.
Noami Hunter and her Facebook group ‘I Will Help Regina’ usually collect donations for refugees and immigrants. But then they saw Pratt’s story.
“One of my group members saw her story in the paper, posted it to the group and went, ‘Noami I know she’s not a refugee’ and I said we’re kind of helping everybody,” explained Hunter.
Basic essential household items were donated as well as larger, more unexpected furnishings.
“People have been dropping off everything from whole kitchen table and chair sets and a set of twin beds for her kids,” said Hunter.
The generosity has been overwhelming for Hunter, who could not hold back her tears.
“It can be hard for strangers to come out and help people that are in need and have lost everything. You know, so it’s heartwarming. I can’t thank them enough for what they’ve done.”
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