He Stepped In To Fix A Leaky Roof, What He Found On The Inside Will….

Mothers will do anything to protect their children, even if it puts their own lives at risk.

Joanna Wiley is a single mother just barely getting by. Unable to afford a contractor to fix her leaking roof, she attempted to fix it herself, but she fell from the ladder and suffered a traumatic brain injury.

To make matters worse, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer while in the hospital.

Desperate for help, she made an emotional plea on Facebook asking for “a safe place for me and my family to live.”

More than 6 months passed with no response. Just when it seemed no one cared, it turned out someone really did.

One roofer, Edward Aguado, saw the post and decided to help in any way he could. Within three days, he fixed her roof—and insisted she didn’t pay a penny.

“It makes it 100% worth it. We’re glad we did it,” Aguado said. “I was in a position where I could help and I wanted to help. It was really as simple as that.”

A friend, it turned out, told Aguado of Wiley’s video, prompting him to help. Aguado was terrified at the sight of the home. It was just in such bad shape. He knew he had to do something.

“She’s literally sitting in there watching water pour into her daughter’s room so me and my sales guy Matt, we came up there, boarded it up, tarped it, and three days later I had a new roof on her house,” he said.

Aguado’s company, Edwards Roofing, and Repair, also gave Wiley new decking and other companies supplied discounted materials. The 40-year roof is reportedly worth $9,000 to $10,000.

“I want to thank you,” she told Aguado in an emotional meeting on July 11.

“A handshake’s not right,” she added before hugging him.

“It makes it 100 percent worth it,” Aguado said of Wiley’s reaction. “We’re glad we did it. I was in a position where I could help and I wanted to help. It was really as simple as that.”

Many other news outlets picked up the story, and it quickly went viral after it was shared on Facebook. Many readers on the Facebook page praised Aguado.

“God bless this man and pray for the mother,” one reader commented.

“He was her guardian Angel sent to help her,” another added. “I wish more people would take the time to listen and see the people who really need help and offer anything because some people finally just give up and never recover. Thank you for helping her and there are […] few like you Sir. I wish there were people like this here in Oklahoma because there are so many that need help and nobody listening.”

“Thank you Edward Roofing for you’re generosity,” one user commented. “I still believe there are lots of good people in this country and you have just reaffirmed that!!!”

“Bless you for caring and kindness toward another human having extreme difficulties,” another user wrote. “I think it would be nice if these haters would look at the things that really need to be fixed and reach out instead of all this hate and destruction as a different gesture extend kindness in other ways and that would be noticed big time. Maybe then with time, we could make our country great again for both sides.”

Sources: OpposingViews, KTVI

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