12/13/2024
Car number 24!
This car went to Alina. She arrived here from Ukraine two years ago with her parents and younger brother. Alina is studying nursing at Tri C while she works as a hostess at a local restaurant.
A big thank you to the Milius family for the second car donated this year.
It costs around $1.50-$2 per mile to take rideshares in Cleveland. A donated car, including insurance, maintenance, and gas, costs about 40 cents per mile. You can save around hundreds of hours per year on a car versus public transportation. The math just works.
Plus, we have all these stories, like a father rushing his son to the emergency room at 2am with his car. Or, one woman’s neighbor went into labor, and the car was there to help. Or something simple, like a kid was able to pursue squash (his favorite) because the mother now had a car.
We followed up two years later on the first eight cars that we’ve done. Since there is such a high demand for a donated car, we’ve been able to get cars to people who really need them in partnership with Re:Source. All eight recipients had no car when they received their donated vehicle, and all eight had a vehicle when we followed up two years later. Some of the cars died, some lived, and one got totalled (a $5,500 insurance payout was received).
A decent car to the right person at the right time changes lives. Wheels to Work exists to make that happen.
This makes 10 cars on the year in partnership with Re:Source Cleveland.
Let’s keep running it back!
