Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article One out of every 10 households in the Bay Area will turn to a food bank this holiday season for sustenance, officials say. Not just the elderly or people too disabled to work, but residents who until a year or two ago held lucrative jobs, owned nice homes […]
Read moreExplore OurStories of Hope Share this Article At an age when most people have retired, 73-year-old Carlos Ramirez gets up early for work as a substitute teacher in San Francisco schools to make ends meet. While he enjoys teaching young people – particularly sharing his love of poetry and song – he finds the job physically and […]
Read moreExplore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Claudia Salgado has always wanted more for her daughters. Salgado’s own mother died when she was 7, and nine months later her father moved from Mexico to Point Reyes Station to make money for the family. Salgado said she had no toys, and her new guardians in Mexico expected her to […]
Read moreExplore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Living with three teenage girls can be trying, even for the most patient parents. So imagine living with your family of five – including three young women – in a garage for more than a year. That was the plight of the Cedillo family, who watched their American […]
Read moreExplore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Felicia Shavies managed to smile through tears as she described how a series of events that were out of her control turned her world upside down. Those events – the real estate downturn, getting laid off, injuring her thumb and even the NBA lockout – made life difficult enough for […]
Read moreExplore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Edna Marie Medeiros chokes up talking about how Season of Sharing – The Chronicle’s annual giving campaign – helped her move to a larger apartment so her son Antonio could have his own room while recovering from a kidney transplant. “God bless them because they changed our lives,” said […]
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