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SUCCESS STORIES
Through the years, Transitional Food and Shelter has helped thousands of individuals
with food, shelter and other necessities during difficult times in their lives.
Listed below are brief testimonies from some of the people who have benefited from our organization.
I'm a waitress, a single mother with two girls and a boy. Each of us
was injured in an auto accident. They put us in an apartment
until I got well enough to go back to work. We all got better.
I'm a recovering drug addict and the mother of two girls. I was
homeless. Child Welfare took my girls away and wouldn't give them
back until I had a place to live. TFS let us stay in an apartment until
I got my girls back, and now I'm working.
I'm a Vietnam veteran. A lot of us live in the riverbed. We
don't want to have anything to do with the government or with other
people. Something was growing on my scalp. It turned out to be
cancer, and it had gone into my brain. After my operation, I
went into an apartment rented by Transitional Food and Shelter
and then I got my own apartment from the Housing Authority. It's
good to live indoors.
My mom had scarlet fever, and she and my dad and I couldn't even
stay in the homeless shelter. TFS paid for a motel room until she was
well. By that time, my dad got a job and got his first paycheck.
I had flesh-eating bacteria and had to have parts of my legs
removed. They let me stay in an apartment in Arroyo Grande while
I recovered from the operation.
My baby was born prematurely at Sierra Vista. They let me out but
kept the baby a while longer. I had to go to the hospital to nurse
the baby. My husband was unemployed and we had a 4-year-old daughter.
They put us all in a motel in San Luis Obispo, then into an apart-
ment when the baby was released. The baby is fine.
It was over 100 degrees, and I passed out at the bus station. I went
to the hospital. I was pretty weak. They let me stay in an apartment.
I was still weak, and a fellow came in to help me bathe. I had Meals
on Wheels. Then I went to a care home in Santa Maria. I like the
chef here. He cooks good food. There are lots of people here to keep
me from getting bored.
I had to have chemotherapy. The doctor said I needed it, but he
wouldn't give it to me unless I had a place to rest in the daytime.
They let me stay in an apartment. After a treatment, I was so weak I
couldn't do anything. They got me a roommate who was disabled but
could still drive, and he took me to Sierra Vista for my treatments.
I have emphysema and have to use a breathing machine. TFS let me
stay in one of their apartments so I could have electricity for the
machine. Now I rent a room in another lady's house.
If it weren't for you (People's Kitchen Volunteers), many folks (myself included)
would go hungry. Not everyone appreciates it as much as they should but don't
let it fool you. Many of us truly understand what you do. Michaelangelo was
wrong when he painted angels. They don't all have blond hair and wings. Some
look like an average church member in Paso Robles.
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