Woody and Luna Faircloth have formed an unusual charity organization. The father-daughter team—Luna is 11—call it EmergencyRV. Wherever folks find themselves without a place to live, Woody and Luna are ready to step in and help, giving RVs to folks without homes. Donate your RV? It could end up in Hawaii—helping out folks devastated by the Maui fire.
Donate your RV to Hawaii? How?
It seems a bit of a reach. After all, there aren’t any established highways between the Lower 48 and the islands. But that hasn’t stopped EmergencyRV. Luna and her dad have already shipped five rigs to Hawaii since the fire. They plan on shipping 10 more at the end of December. How do they do it? They must have some crowd appeal; they’ve convinced groups of California firefighters to chip in to cover the shipping costs.
So what happens if you donate your RV to EmergencyRV? Aside from that warm, fuzzy feeling, you also get a tax write-off. The full appraised value of the rig is documented, and it can be used as a U.S. income tax deduction.
Father and daughter aren’t new to the donate your RV charity. The Faircloths have seen to it that 130 RVs have reached people all over the country who have lost their homes in natural disasters. From Gulf Coast hurricanes, to tornadoes in Kentucky, and wildfire destruction in California, EmergencyRV has helped out.
And it’s a “what goes around comes around” situation. Woody and Luna say many of the rigs they’ve given away are themselves given away again. When folks who needed them got back on their feet, they were moved to pass the rig along to someone else in need. Sometimes they’ve given the rig back to EmergencyRV for redistribution.
Learn more about the charity here.
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Really pleasant article, Russ and Tina. It’s always nice to read about people helping others where and when the need arises. Thank you for sharing it.
This seems a wonderful thing. I wonder if their donations are gathering steam these days? That is, I wonder if those who picked up RVing during the virus-shutdown but aren’t so keen to continue, and those ticked off by high fuel prices and campsite costs are quitting RVing and donating their RVs?
Nice idea. If we were in that sort of emergency situation I know we’d love to have a safe place to live!
Good for them. Hope those masks don’t cause too much damage to their lungs