Alice E., 74, Philadelphia, PA

Alice’s stove has not worked in three years.  A mother of 12, Alice worked hard to raise her children alone. Her daughter wrote that “if it wasn’t for my mother, I don’t know how we all would have made it to be adults.”  She wanted to do something that would make her mother smile again.  The gas stove was generously donated by Yona and Jonathan Beller in June 2008.