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for the past 8 months, 8 care providers in Kentucky have been using Samaritan to get more food, support and shelter into their residents' hands

51 unhoused individuals and families have already used Samaritan as a bridge between the relational and financial gaps in their journeys, empowering clients to achieve the following outcomes…

560

volunteer
‘samaritans’

60

samaritan
members

10

obtained perm-
anent housing

21

reached life-
changing outcomes

  • time unsheltered

    26 years

  • life care visits

    6

  • funds from program

    $36 members

    samaritans on team

    36 members

  • outcome

    found housing,
    improved health

I still get encouraging and uplifting words every day from my supporters, they keep me going… I’m very grateful.

Araijzon

Testimony from Araijzon

Since she was 3 years old, Araijzon had been in and out of shelters. Now 29, Araijzon is employed and about to have her third child. Not only that, but with the help of samaritans on her team, she was able to obtain a housing voucher and pay off a past utility bill debt that was blocking her from using it. As of February 2023, she and her family are finally permanently housed! “At one point I lost hope in my life. I was always thinking I don’t know how I’m going to do it. Y’all gave me hope.

  • time unsheltered

    9 months

  • life care visits

    7

  • funds from program

    $34 members

    samaritans on team

    34 members

  • outcome

    found housing

I lost my housing after landlord negligence… I was in a shelter with my kids while looking for a new home…

Dashonda

Dashonda, a single mother of three, lost her home in March. When we first met Dashonda, she and her kids had been sleeping in her car and hotels. At first she wanted to hide. “I didn’t want anyone to know,” she recalls. “There was shame. Then I realized if I don’t open up and branch out I won’t get the help I need.” She connected with Volunteers for America, one of our partners in Louisville, for temporary shelter. It was there she made a promise to her kids: they would have a home before the holidays. She was able to keep her word. Thanks to the support of her samaritans, by Christmas was able to move her family into a place of their own.

  • time unsheltered

    7 months

  • life care visits

    5

  • funds from program

    $8 members

    samaritans on team

    8 members

  • outcome

    found housing

David A.

In June of 2022, David and his children (13-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter) were evicted without notice and had 7 days to vacate their previous home. They lived in a Uhaul through the hot summer months of June, July, and August 2022. Since then, David has been working hard to get his family into a safe home. While working a hardware job and going to school for cybersecurity, he got connected to Samaritan. Within 6 months, they were housed! “I was worried about the kids and how they’d handle losing everything,” he told us. “But they’re just happy to be out of the chaos they were in.”

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