Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Sitting in a warm though stark apartment near San Francisco’s Bayview district while his 6-year old daughter, Akacia, was at school, Anthony Hodges confessed disappointment that he could not even afford a tiny Christmas tree – let alone anything to put under it – to brighten the holiday for his children. […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article When Virginia Arredondo Macias decided to leave her marriage a few years ago, her ex-husband belittled her to her children. Her twin boys, Juan Jose and Abraham Ortega, ignored their father. They were 14 at the time and made the move from Oakland to Sunnyvale with their mother, who spoke limited English and had […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article On lunch break from his job as a teacher’s aide at the Salvation Army‘s preschool program in San Francisco, Alvin Bautista flashed a big smile. He had bought his own kids a Christmas tree for the first time in eight years. With the purchase of the tree, though, came sacrifices. Bautista, who […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article “Because they have no home,” his mother, Olga Lane, told him.A few months ago he saw transients living on the streets of San Francisco with their tattered sleeping bags and shopping carts and wanted to know why they couldn’t go home. Probably what disturbed Conall the most was that he saw […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Every day at her job, Cheryl Fields helps low-income families settle into new homes in San Francisco, one of the nation’s wealthiest cities. Last year, the work became personal. That’s when the single mother and daughters Aneiyah, 9, and Aneshia, 23, learned they would be evicted from their apartment in […]
Explore Our Stories of Hope Share this Article Back before the fire that triggered her heart attack and turned everything she and her family owned into soggy ash, 70-year-old Graciela Campos made lace doilies. Hundreds of them. Red, blue, white, small, large. Intricate, beautiful. But that was in the years leading up to July 7, when […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Shea Taylor removed a shoe-box-size container from her refrigerator and opened it to show syringes prefilled with Copaxone, a drug to prevent her multiple sclerosis from flaring up. “This is a 30-day supply and costs $2,500,” the single mom said. “I’m trying to make it last as long as […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Rich Fletcher grimaced as he inched his way down the parallel bars. When he got to the end, his wife, Laura, was waiting. It was the first time he had looked down at her since an enraged driver rear-ended him at 60 mph and sent him flying off his motorcycle. Lorem […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Anne Baldwin stumbled into the emergency room with horrible abdominal pains. She had no idea what could be wrong with her. Then, as she began to slip into unconsciousness, Baldwin saw the sign – for the surgical oncology center. “No, this cannot be happening,” she remembers thinking. “I am […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Temo Elvira sank into the couch in the tidy living room in his new three-bedroom apartment in San Francisco’s Bayview district. He’d worked a full eight-hour shift stocking cutlery, washing dishes and organizing schedules at the Westfield San Francisco Centre food court, where he runs the dish room. And that was […]
