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Category: Featured 2016

Featured 2016 / Stories 2016

Pleasanton nonprofit Child Care Links empowers victim of domestic abuse

It was only nine months ago when Patricia grabbed her three children and escaped to a local motel room one night. The 26-year-old mother was a victim of domestic violence, …

Featured 2016 / Featured 2017 / Stories 2016

Immigrants’ story: from a land of violence to one of hope

Two years ago, Aracely Garcia Gonzales and her husband, Otto Alva Lopez, made a difficult decision. With Otto already in the United States working to send money back home to …

Featured 2016 / Stories 2016

Homes help former foster youth ‘enter a challenger, exit a champion’

Kevin Lynn has fought through hunger, homelessness and depression, his teenage years a blur of foster homes that he felt treated him like “a disposable paycheck.” His apartment burned down …

Featured 2016 / Stories 2016

Teen escapes homelessness, finds kinship with aid of nonprofit

For about six weeks one summer, Karizma Harper and her mom lived among the homeless in Berkeley’s People’s Park. Although she was 8 or 9 years old at the time, …

Featured 2016 / Stories 2016

Oakland dance company reaches out to disabled veterans

A desire to explore life beyond the circular track led competitive wheelchair athlete Dwayne Scheuneman to the world of dance. It was a place the track-and-field enthusiast never thought he’d …

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