A refuge for those with no place to turn

Blankets, Food and a Chance When you sit down and talk to April, you can tell she wants to be like any other kid. “I love stuffed animals,” she says. April keeps trying to turn the conversation towards fun things — the garden she helps water and how good she is at reading. Even though […]

Matthew finally beat the odds . . . And it wasn’t easy! Last month we shared part one of Matthew’s story – how molestation, abuse, violence and alcohol at five years old destroyed his childhood. How there were already drugs in his system when he was born. How he was addicted, alone and living on the […]

Matthew never had a chance. The surprise isn’t that Matthew is homeless; The surprise is that he survived, at all! It began when Matthew was an infant – he was born as a baby with an addiction, cocaine already in his system. By the time he was four he was homeless; his family was living […]