Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) – The San Francisco Chronicle’s Season of Sharing Fund this year is marking 30 years of serving as a safety net for tens of thousands of needy Bay Area residents, many of whom are faced with unexpected crises. An accident, a layoff from a job, being […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Home. For many, it’s a simple concept: a place of one’s own in which to house one’s family and store one’s belongings. Home also provides cherished privacy from the outside world, an opportunity to exercise one’s own decisions and experience one’s own preferences. Life without a home proves […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article When Daniel Espinoza began working nights as a painter for Kaiser in February, he knew that his job would eat into time with his family. But Espinoza needed the work, which meant not seeing his sons, ages 8 and 12, for more than a few minutes at a […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Saylean Barham had planned on losing her apartment. With the end of her lease approaching, Barham paid off her bills, sold all her things and bought plane tickets for her and her disabled son to her home state of Hawaii. Barham, a 43-year-old single mom, was ready to […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article For the first month, Eloisa Herrera was grateful just to have an apartment for her fiance and their two small kids. She did not mind that there was nothing in it but carpet, which they sat on to eat and lay on to sleep. Herrera has lived with […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Nothing about Natalia Kataeva’s life is simple. She has this thing she says, whenever you ask a seemingly easy question — like, “How’d you wind up in Sunnyvale?” “It’s a story within a story within a story,” she’ll say. She’s not kidding. It’s a rainy Sunday morning, the […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Having cancer is challenging enough. Having cancer, financial issues and bureaucratic red tape to deal with is a trifecta of suffering. But that’s what Bruce Williams has faced over the past two years. The 41-year old Concord father of three, who works the graveyard shift for BART doing […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Wielding knives, dropping ingredients in hot oil, moving quickly on often-slippery floors — chefs encounter plenty of safety hazards every day. Xana Cook-Milligan was always careful. But in March, while at work at a restaurant in Pacifica, she performed the perfectly routine action of lifting a gallon of […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Sherill Bradley watches TV but cannot remember what she saw. She listens to books but cannot remember what she heard. She meets new people but, a few minutes later, doesn’t remember who she met. “Nice to meet you,” she said to a newspaper reporter whom she met a […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Gina and Anthony Wire are just normal, hard-working folks, a dual-income couple with a daughter in high school. In the increasingly high-priced Bay Area, however, such families are now living on the edge financially. It’s a story that is becoming all too familiar: forced out of their longtime […]
