“This is where I came to the lowest part of my life”

Yoana stands by the side of the freeway, looking down a hill at the traffic rushing below.

She had once lived here, in a tent. Her methamphetamine and alcohol addiction had brought her to this lowest part of her life.

"I lost everything due to my addiction," she shares. "My home. My car. My job. My kids were removed from my custody, and I ended up on the street."

A friend told her she could live at his "house." Little did she know, his "house" was a tent on the side of the freeway.

Then one night, it started raining, and the tent started sliding down the hill.

"I started thinking is this what I want my kids to think of me? The drug addict mom sleeping in a tent . . . God gave me the gift of desperation . . ."

To see what happened next, please watch Yoana's powerful story now.

Women on Skid Row suffer unimaginable devastation

In the past year, the number of women devastated by homelessness on Skid Row has jumped 35%.

A woman on Skid Row faces many challenges and risks, including the lack of a safe place to sleep, and a lack of hygiene products or restrooms.

That's why we are opening our new Sprung structure, which will shelter an additional 120 women, giving them a safe place to sleep for the night, out of harm's way, and offering them a way out of homelessness.

Will you help now?

For a gift of $16.10, you can provide a whole day of immediate care for a woman devastated by homelessness in our new Sprung structure, including a shower, counseling, and the chance to start a new life.