Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article The booming economy hasn’t beaten back hunger. In Silicon Valley, down through the Peninsula, 1 out of every 10 people gets at least some food from a food bank. That’s 250,000 people who get a bag of groceries or a meal from the Second Harvest Food Bank of […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article At 69, Beatrice Shaw is the legal guardian for her two autistic great-grandsons, ages 7 and 9. Even on a fixed income, she’s scrimped to meet their needs, renting a house to give each his own room; driving them to school, catechism and sports activities; and cooking meals […]
Explore Our Stories of Hope Share this Article Scrub. Hug. Play. Laugh. Worry. Start all over again. Scrub. But mostly, laugh. And always, love. That’s how most days are for Jessica Pequeno and her 2-year-old son Xavier Pequeno as they wait for the bone marrow transplant in December that she hopes will save him from […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Nearly two decades ago, a friend of Gerardo Monroy handed him a business card for Sunnyvale Community Services and told him that if he ever landed on hard times, the agency might be able to help out. Monroy, who with his brother had just started a forklift repair […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article When the Loma Prieta earthquake hit, John Abduljaami was living next to the Cypress Structure in Oakland, where he ran a scrap metal yard. Abduljaami was able to grab some aluminum ladders, run across the street to the elevated freeway, extend them to the roadway, climb up and […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article When Nixon Matignas served in Iraq with the Army from 2007 to 2009, he had dreams of defending his country and becoming his own man. Never did he imagine he’d wind up homeless in San Francisco, living in hotel rooms and in abandoned coyote dens in Golden Gate […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article For all the new furniture, freshly painted walls and welcoming staff, there’s one thing that Joseph Jackson loves more than anything else about his first real home in four years. The noise. It’s outside his window in downtown San Francisco, all the time — the grinding and honking […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Secondary Section Headline Carlos Urrutia Felix, a union carpenter for more than 30 years in Contra Costa County, had a perilous job, navigating highrise scaffolding to install metal siding and drywall. But the thing that brought him to the ground was something he never saw coming: kidney cancer. […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article The earthquake that damaged Napa Valley this summer brought new troubles — and new opportunities — to the Community Action of Napa Valley food bank. The program was just settling into new offices when the magnitude 6.0 temblor hit in August, Director Shirley King said. Though it wreaked […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Ronald and Darlene Amey, regular churchgoers, have been working hard their whole lives — he as a handyman, she as a letter carrier for the past 31 years. Ronald’s the kind of guy who will go to McDonald’s with $20 to get 20 hamburgers to hand out at […]
