Ginger Faith arrived in L.A. with two donation-filled trucks, but after her friend took what she needed, she had to figure out what to do with the rest
- Ginger Faith jumped right in when she discovered her friend Nitti Kaur lost her Altadena home in the California wildfires, rallying her San Francisco Bay Area communities to donate goods
- That response resulted in an overwhelming amount of donations, which led the Livermore real estate broker to search for donation sites
- Now, Faith and Kaur have started a Facebook group matching donors with specific families in need
Ginger Faith was ready to hop in her car from her home near San Francisco for a pre-planned visit to her friend in Altadena when she heard about the raging wildfires swooping towards Nitti Kaur’s neighborhood.
“I said that doesn’t sound good, so I called my friend,” Faith tells PEOPLE, adding that she quickly learned her friend had lost her home. “Obviously you don’t know what to do. You don’t even know what to say,” she says.
But true to her name, the Livermore real estate broker took a leap of faith, rounded up donations to help both her friend and others devastated by the wildfires — then prepared to leave for Los Angeles as soon as possible. However, finding a place that could accept everything was difficult and it wasn’t long before she decided to take another approach entirely: getting involved with LA Fires Adopt a Family .
Faith says she learned a lot after whipping up support to help Kaur after she saw the text Kaur sent from her backyard showing the fire’s approach…