Sponsored Welcoming Charaya is from Cambodia. She came to this country 50 years ago, escaping the war there after having lost all her family. She had to start from scratch and did quite well for many years; she was an engineer, then opened a skin care business and then went into interior design. She was able to set aside enough money to buy … Read More

Sponsored Welcoming by Gaby Federal, Jill Kantola and Friends Less than a year ago, Wilma was in a traumatic domestic violence situation. Thanks to support from the Center for Domestic Peace, she was able to escape and find an apartment for herself and her two sons. Then, in October, the family had to move out. The landlord had raised the … Read More

Sponsored Welcoming Victoria and her family are recovering from a serious traumatic event they suffered two years ago. Victoria’s youngest son, 16 at the time, was stabbed multiple times outside a local elementary school in a case that turned out to be mistaken identity. He was left critically injured and spent nearly a year in the hospital, undergoing 24 surgeries. … Read More

Sponsored Welcoming After many years in an abusive relationship, Consuela felt she had no choice but to flee with her children. Initially, they stayed with family and friends until she was able to secure an apartment. But due to lack of work during the pandemic, she was unable to continue the rent payments and once again found herself in transient … Read More