ST. LOUIS – A couple with 12 children could soon be back on the streets after their temporary shelter runs out.

It’s been nearly one month since the tornado hit, and all that’s left of the Williams’ family home are missing bricks. The family urgently requires long-term recovery assistance.

Salina Williams, a mother of 12, says when the tornado hit, it destroyed nearly everything. For weeks, the Williams family slept in the family car. The kids range from age 11 to 24
guarding what was left.

“People are breaking into people’s homes,” Williams said. “I don’t want them to take the little bit of stuff we have left.”

Emergency relief efforts placed the family in an extended-stay hotel, but that help ends on June 15.

Williams says community groups are doing what they can but many families, like hers, are falling through the cracks. She says her house has been marked condemned by the city

With 12 children counting on them, this couple hopes their story sparks change—and help the family has set up a GoFundMe to try and get on their feet.