Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article It was either pay the rent or replace the furnace. Danniel Kientz knew he couldn’t afford to do both. When you’re living on a Social Security check, there’s not a lot left over at the end of the month for things like new furnaces. Usually there’s not a […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Christina Quinn is a dancer. She’s a jazz singer. A fitness teacher. An empath. And after seeing the results of a follow-up mammogram in June, she calls herself a survivor. “I’m grateful to find out that I’m breast cancer-free,” said Quinn, who also goes by Zeena. Now, she […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article At first, it just seemed like someone was barbecuing next door. Adrianna Wolfe was still wondering what that bacon-like smell was when she walked into the living room and noticed a haze. Then the TV stopped working. It didn’t stay a mystery for long. “It was smoke — […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article For Russlyn Nicolas, a single mother battling metastatic breast cancer, the coronavirus has made her difficult life even tougher. Due to the pandemic, she lost her job in early March and both daughters who live with her also lost their jobs. A roommate who had been contributing toward […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Ever since she was a little girl in Minnesota cutting all her dolls’ hair and watching her mom give perms to friends, “the neighbor ladies” and relatives, Linda Voss, 59, has loved doing hair. A professional stylist for almost 40 years, she hasn’t been able to work since […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article When the coronavirus began to spread at an alarming rate in the Bay Area, Miriam Moreno stopped going to work. Moreno, who is severely asthmatic and prone to bronchitis and other pulmonary complications, was terrified of possibly contracting the virus at her cashier job at Costco in Sunnyvale, […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article When Jacqueline Martin and Brad Dismukes, a retired couple in their 80s who live in San Francisco, got their stimulus checks, they realized they didn’t need the extra cash. Instead, the couple decided to donate the money to help people who did. Martin and Dismukes are sending the […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Margarita Viorato missed working. And she needed to keep working. Viorato, a 48-year-old from Napa, stopped working at vineyards, where she toiled in fields as well as cellars, soon after doctors determined in summer 2018 that a little ball she felt in her chest was cancer. “When you […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article It was the middle of the night when the Tubbs Fire tore through Jessica Vega’s neighborhood north of Santa Rosa in October 2017 — but Vega and her children might not have awakened had the family’s dogs not roused them. “By the time we woke up, everyone in […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Bruce Voorhees stood in front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, put his fingers on the names of two fallen Marine comrades and wept. It was the culmination of a months-long pilgrimage across the country. The idea of the road trip was to pay tribute to […]
