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A unidentified woman posted a negative Facebook rant of a man sleeping in a Fayette County, Georgia McDonald’s. Simon Childs was an homeless father who was resting between his shifts at the fast-food restaurant. The Atlanta metro area community saw the woman’s post and began helping the man by donating hotel room and clothing for him and his child.

“I’ve been going through a hard time with my mom passing,” Childs told WSBTV. The 21-year-old recently lost his mother and is raising his young son.

“Everything I do, I want to work for it,” he said. When Childs discovered the photo was posted on Facebook he was hurt.

“It kind of hurt to see my picture up there, you know? I thought it was something negative and nobody would care about it.”

However, he was happily surprised when he came back to work and noticed donated diapers for his son, supplies and clothes.

“They changed my life in a couple of days,” he told the news station.

Chefs Xavier and Theo Thomas own the Fusion Chefs Eatery reached out to Childs to let him borrow a car for job interviews.

“It just touched our heart,” Xavier Thomas said. “It definitely will help him get around and give him a better opportunity,” Theo Thomas said.

Childs added he’s not mad at the woman who made the post. “I’m not homeless, not now, thanks to her,” he said. “I didn’t think the community would even care enough to do that, but they care.”

WSBTV spoke with the woman who made the post and she said off camera she never planned to shame anyone when she shared the photo with a private Facebook group.

Since the story first ran on the news station, he received a free haircut to help on job interviews. Childs has now received job offers through the whole ordeal and is excited to get a permanent place for him and his son to live.

A GoFundMe page has been set up for Simon Childs.

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