Ashley lives with her mother, and her 13 year-old brother. The three of them live in government housing and survive on just $150 per week—what Ashley’s mom can make taking care of a neighbor’s child 24 hours a day, five days a week.  Childcare is the only income Graciela has been able to find since she lost her job two years ago. 

LaSharon, a single mother, put her two daughters through college and then adopted a seven year old - Nakia. Six years later she had a stroke and now can no longer work. Her older daughters refused to take her in unless she gave Nakia away but she refused to do such a thing. LaSharon and Nakia lived in shelters and now have a small apartment near Nakia's school. They would not survive without the extra food and hygiene products that World Vision helps them to secure.

For the Guytton family, chaos began one bitter winter night when they received a phone call that changed their lives forever. Joyce Guytton received the painful news that her sister had died that evening in a car accident. Mr. and Mrs. Guytton agreed to take her sister’s six children into her home. Not long afterward Mrs. Guytton’s daughter called and told her that she had lost her job so she and her 3 children also moved into Joyce's home, now totaling 12 children!

Margie had cared for her mother during a decade-long bout with cancer. After her mother’s death, Margie held her mother’s possessions dear, feeling that as long as some of her things were still around, she wasn’t completely gone. Everything of her mother’s was burned. Margie’s son, Joshua, and grandchild, Faith, lost all their possessions, too.

Being a single mom with four boys and constantly having to move, from city to city and state to state, has made it very hard for Robyn to be able to provide for what her boys need. Right now she has no job and no income. She and her boys are living in a domestic violence shelter while they start their lives over once again.

Free breakfast event for orgs. on March 20, 10 a.m to noon at World Vision, 885 East 138th Street in the Bronx.

Volunteers are urgently needed at World Vision’s Miami Logistic Support Center to help organize and pack essential relief and recovery items for shipment to Haiti.

Economy pushes millions into severe need

World Vision is committed to continuing to serve our Elgin partners through monthly drop shipments.

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