Help Stories

Georgia is unemployed, but has been diligently seeking employment for months with no luck. She has been unable to pay her power bill at all. Her service was disconnected this week. The balance was over $700. A payment of at least half of the balance was needed to restore service. She worked hard to gather…

Kevin is an elderly, homeless man. He had an apartment in Fremont, but the building was sold and the rent was raised to more than his Section 8 voucher allotted. After Kevin was forced to move out, he had been couch surfing with various friends. He found a new rental, but he did not have…

Charles called for assistance to have the water service in his home restored after having it disconnected for several weeks. He admittedly, let the bill get very high because he was struggling to pay just the bare minimum to get by on other bills. By the time it was disconnected, the bill was over $2,000…

Peggy is an elderly widow. She survives on her retirement income, which is about $1600 a month. With a mortgage cost of $1300 per month, she has significant trouble getting by. Her water was set to be disconnected, so St. Vincent de Paul paid $139 to keep her water running. If you want to know…

Victoria is a disabled veteran. Her disability is unrelated to her service, but she has trouble moving around and performing physical labor. As a result, she is returning to school to study Esthetics, which she feels will help her find employment more suitable to her disability.  She had some unexpected expenses come up and was…

Patricia is a single mother of three small children, who called us today because her power was turned off yesterday. She lost her job a few weeks ago and has no idea how she will get by until she finds another. The power company was able to close out her old account, which will send…