March 21st is the day set aside to observe National Single Parent Day. This day was created to honor and recognize the hard work, devotion and sacrifices of single parenting.
Clint Capela's CC15 Foundation Mission is to help provide low-income single parents with the opportunities and resources to provide their children with the same experiences and options available to dual parent, middle and upper income families. His hope during this month long campaign is to engage anyone who's life was or has been affected by a Single Parent Household.
Please consider donating to Clint Capela's CC15 Foundation as they look to support those tasked with the toughest job in any industry: Raising a Family.
Clint has committed to personally match every dollar raised via this campaign up to $50,000. Double your impact by donating today!
Clint Capela's Story: His mother immigrated to Switzerland from the Congo by way of Italy. Film lured her from Central Africa to Rome, where the aura of Hollywood on the Tiber still romanced aspiring performers. She met a man along the way, marrying and giving birth to her first son, Fabrice. She followed her husband to Geneva, child in tow, only to split with her first love. She fell for Capela’s Angolan father soon after, bringing her second boy, Landry, into the world. Landry was a toddler when Clint arrived. Capela’s father left shortly after the birth of his second son. They’re no longer in touch. He knows little about the man responsible for his life.
For an out-of-work actress twice spurned by a partner, raising three sprouting boys grew an insurmountable responsibility. Child poverty once ran rampant in Switzerland, where, in the 1950s, orphans, illegitimate children and kids from poor families were often given away or sold to farmers as laborers. The country’s modern education system, rippling from its apprenticeship model, has more than resolved that plague. Landry, 10, and Capela, 6, were housed in a welfare orphanage to complete elementary school.
Clint was then forced to enter a new group home, where boys resided before beginning their individual apprenticeships at 15. Animosity and aggression lingered in the new halls, a stark difference from the nurturing environment he had relished. It was easy to manhandle a toothpick preteen uncomfortably growing into his own body. “I was the youngest. I was skinny,” Capela said. “I learned how to deal by myself, because usually my brother was always around and I was protected.” Once Clint's brother left, that was no longer the case and he was forced to fend for himself within the walls of an unforgiving orphanage now overcrowded with aggressive teenagers.
He followed Landry’s every move after the trying seventh, and final, year in child services. Big brother and friends had begun flirting with basketball and convinced the towering younger Caplea to start playing ball with his hands. They could never have known what stroke of fortune those bouts in the park, attempting to emulate Allen Iverson’s crossover and later idolizing Switzerland’s only NBA player, Thabo Sefolosha, would become. Capela reallocated nearly his entire rookie season salary back home. His mother was unfathomably behind on rent and government payments. “She had taxes to pay for 20 years, so I took care of it,” Capela said. “Taxes from insurance, apartment, social help.” Two decades of debt, wiped away as swiftly as he cleans the glass.
Clint Capela is now in a position to give back - and his goal is to engage anyone else selfless enough to help him.
Please note that Clint Capela's CC15 Foundation was incorporated in the State of Kentucky on September 23, 2018, under EIN 83-2665174. The organization has submitted Form 1023 for 501(c)(3) certification under IRS guidelines and is awaiting approval. Once approved, donations to this story retroactive to September 23, 2018 may be tax deductible as an IRS-registered 501(c)(3). Spotfund makes no representation or warranty that any contribution is tax-deductible. You agree to be responsible for the tax reporting and characterization of any contribution by Spotfund for your account to any Recipient.
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