Your help lifts survivors up, and they become a blessing to others.
Lindsay, our Children’s Program Coordinator went from survivor to empowerer. Lindsay shared her story with us:
“I’m able to provide the resources that I longed for.”
I married my college sweetheart right after graduation. I soon found myself a mother of two girls and stuck in a relationship that I knew wasn’t healthy. I often ended up in tears, feeling alone, isolated, and worthless.
After our divorce, I found myself in yet another abusive relationship, only worse. He would push me, hit me, threaten me, and scare me and my girls. I distinctly remember a time when he threatened to light my dog on fire. He locked me, himself, and my dog, Bubby, in a room and held a flame just mere inches from Bubby’s fur. I was terrified.
Through an intense and terrifying series of events, my young daughters and I were able to flee to my mother’s house. I’m so thankful that I was able to escape.
I wish I had known about Sheltering Wings earlier. I wish someone had told me that there was a safe place I could escape to and get help and resources.
Fast-forward a few years, and I’m now serving as the Children’s Program Coordinator at Sheltering Wings. I’m able to provide the resources that I so desperately longed for during my abuse.
That’s why this community of caring people is so important. The money and materials that you donate during July are the supports that I so desperately needed. And those are the resources that I’m now able to offer to the survivors at Sheltering Wings.
When I’m able to give a child a new toy that was donated through Christmas in July, or put new sidewalk chalk outside for the kids to play with, or when I have the funds to spend on the programs that provide hope to children and their parents, it’s so joyful!
Thank you for being a part of the work we do at Sheltering Wings. Thank you for providing the resources that I desperately longed for.
You are building a community of strong families who will thrive with help, love and support.
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- Survivor Story that YOU made possible
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