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Eddie Vedder Gives $10,000 to Help Family Struggling During Christmas

Tyskika Britten turned to Craigslist this holiday season for a little help giving her kids the season she felt they deserved.

“I am a mother of six, 5 boys and 1 baby girl,” she began. Then, in a single paragraph, she laid out how her family would soon be evicted from their Maryland home, how she had yet to buy a tree or gifts, how this was the first time she might not be able to give her children a Christmas.

“I’m so hurt,” the 35-year-old hairstylist wrote. “I’m trying my best. I pray everyday and now I’m begging for help. I know it's not about the gifts, but they are kids! I’m such a failure right now . . . please help me.”

Her message, thanks in part to a Washington Post article, went viral, bringing in hundreds of offers to help the family from around the world. Including a special gift from someone we all know named Eddie Vedder who sent a check for $10,000.

“I was just so moved by the story and what this mother did for her children,” Vedder said in an interview Sunday. “I thought those kids must be so proud of their mother for reaching out. That takes a lot of courage.”

Vedder also said he saw some of his own childhood in their story.

“There were years there were toys from Santa, but they were used and they came from garage sales and they didn’t always work,” he said. Vedder said his decision to help provide, as he put it, “a tourniquet” was to help the family gain some control and normalcy.


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