Updated:
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 8:42 PM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 7:49 PM CDT
By Craig Wall, FOX
She had a good job at a bank in the
suburbs.
She and her 10-year-old son had a safe
home.
But then the world came crashing down
around the 39-year-old. She lost her job. She lost her house. And she and her
son moved into her truck. Police found her and DCFS threatened to take away her
son if she didn't find a safe place to stay.
She moved into a hotel with the help of a
social worker who paid for a few nights stay with her own money. That's when
But
"All I can do is get out there and put
a sign in my hand, or put a cup in my hand and ask people to help me out, and
everything I get, except maybe bus fare and something to eat, I give it to
her," Jackson said as he stood at the corner of 55th and Harlem.
"I've donated to charities, I've
helped other homeless families -- never realizing that one day we'd be in this
situation," she said. "So thank God that we did have an angel waiting
for us."
"I have God. I'm one of the richest
men on this earth, 'cause I have God," he said. "Money is not my
master. That's what's wrong with this world: money is its master."
"I'm out here for a purpose: to help
someone, and that's all I'm trying to do is help someone that needs help right
at this moment," he said. "And once she doesn't need help anymore,
I'll move on to something else."