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ATLANTA, GA When a family of five Birmingham, Alabama children lost both parents to COVID-19 late last year, the mother’s sister, who has seven children of her own, became their guardian.
Christian and Amber Fletcher, co-founders of the Atlanta-based Fletcher Fund for Equality and Education, were moved to lend their support. The Fletcher Fund immediately made donations of full-ride scholarships to each of the oldest three children for the college of their choice. Additionally, the Fletcher Fund donated new furniture to help accommodate the extended family.
Christian Fletcher is CEO of LifeBrite Laboratories, which is located in DeKalb County.
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ATLANTA, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Fletcher Fund for Equality and Education – a nonprofit focusing on providing scholarships, mentorship, and other critical support to students from underserved communities seeking higher education – awarded its first round of full-ride scholarships to three students from a family who recently suffered the loss of both parents to COVID-19.
Christian Fletcher and Amber Fletcher, co-founders of the Fletcher Fund, were struck with an overwhelming sense of duty when they heard about Chantelle McCall and Rance Martin passing from COVID-19. Chantelle s sister Francesca was given guardianship of Chantelle s five children, combining with Francesca s own seven children, leading to a family of 14 all under one roof.
Gifts, scholarships, $367,000 raised for Alabama family raising 12 kids after parents die of COVID
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The blessings keep pouring in for an Alabama family that ended up with 12 children under one roof after COVID-19 took a mother and father away from their five children.
The combining of the two households came from a long-ago pact between Francesca McCall and her sister, Chantale McCall, when each vowed one sister would take in the other’s children and raise them as their own should either die.
Then the unimaginable happened. Chantale, 35, died at UAB Hospital in September after being airlifted from her home in Selma with COVID-19 complications. Her husband, 40-year-old Lance Martin, died at UAB one month later, also from COVID-19.