Angela is a single mother of four kids under 10.  She has always worked hard to provide her kids with whatever they needed.

Like many single parents, she worked all day, picked her kids up from childcare, helped with homework, fed and bathed them, and sent them to bed.  It was a demanding life, but it was hers.

Then she lost her job.

Angela was beside herself.  She could no longer afford childcare, so she brought the kids home after school.  None were old enough to be without an adult so she stayed home with them.  But this cut into her time to search for another job.  She was frantic.

Then she heard about the YMCA.  It was a place her kids had always wanted to go, but never thought she could afford.   But with a YMCA scholarship she found she could keep her kids in the after school program and spend her days job hunting and interviewing.

It didn’t take long before Angela found a full-time position.  Her kids are safe and happy in the YMCA after school program.  And Angela is thrilled.

The names of the individuals have been changed to protect their privacy.