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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, FamilyAid Boston has experienced a surge of families needing help, many of whom never thought they could end up homeless. Sara and her two children, Angie, age 12 and Zoe, age 14 were one of those families. Sara is a single mother who works full-time at a social service nonprofit that helps connect school-aged children to community resources. Sara and her daughters live in a two-bedroom apartment close to Angie and Zoe’s school and a local community center.

Kelly, a young single mom, came to FamilyAid Boston after being evicted from her apartment. Kelly couldn’t keep up with the cost of rent and daycare for […]

  In the early summer of 2019, Charity started feeling unwell. At first, she thought she was just exhausted from working two jobs and having a newborn, […]

Everything was going right in Jazmin’s life. She had graduated from Pine Manor College with a degree in Social and Political Systems and she was in a […]

In November of this year, everything was going right for Tanya’s family. She had a secure job that she loved, working with patients in hospice care, her […]

Cristina is a single mother of two. She was forced to leave her apartment when she could no longer afford the rising rent. The family had to […]

Marie, a single mother of two, was working two jobs to provide a safe and stable home for her children. With the hope of advancing in her […]

Now that I finally have some time to reflect, I can see that it’s pretty amazing what I have accomplished. Through this whole year of being homeless, […]

I know something about what it means to help — I’ve been helping other people for most of my life. My mother was a strong woman, working […]