GOOD NEWS: An Alabama farmer secretly helped his neighbors access prescription medication for over a decade.
Hody
Childress made monthly anonymous cash donations to a local pharmacy in
the farm town of Geraldine, 60 miles southeast of Huntsville, Alabama.
- Local pharmacist Brooke Walker used the donations to help cash-strapped residents buy prescription medication.
- The local community learned that Childress was responsible for the donations after he died in January, aged 80.
- Walker and Childress's daughter, Tania Nix, began receiving offers of support for Childress's project after the Washington Post reported the story last week.
- A
quarter of Americans struggle to pay for prescription medication and
a third skip doses, cut pills, or go without treatment, according to a 2019 survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
