Chantil (left) is a wonderful young lady looking for a brighter future, and it first started with her moving out from a transitional home at Marie’s House of Serenity into a new home of her own. While her demeanor was quiet and nervous, her eyes and smile said otherwise as she was excited and ready for a new beginning. There were only a few moments to speak to her since it didn’t take long to get the furniture into the back of her mom’s truck, but she has dealt with some struggles before coming to Friends In Deed.
As she was growing up, she was in and out of homeless shelters and other living arrangements, and for quite some time didn’t have a place to live at all. She has two brothers and a mother and stayed with them throughout these movements. Social services were helpful and so were other charitable organizations and social service programs such as United Way. Before she visited Friends In Deed for furniture for her new place, she only had a cot and a fold-up chair where she could let loose; now she has a table, a mattress, and a rocking chair that was discovered will be great to help her enjoy her hobby of filling out crossword puzzles.
Chantil heard of Friends In Deed, and she trusted them to support her and to make her new place of living more like home. We succeeded in just that as she saw the furniture pile into the back of her mom’s truck. There came a moment that taking a picture of just her didn’t truly represent that ambition you could see in her about this big transition in her life, so I asked her if she would prefer to take a picture with me (right). She agreed wholeheartedly, and her eyes in the picture alone tell a story, but today, with the help of Friends In Deed, a new chapter in that story has begun.