Your Generosity Transforms Lives and Brings Hope
Students attending Lena Pope’s Juvenile Justice
Alternative Education Program have very strict
appearance guidelines. When a student can’t launder
his or her uniform, they can’t get the merits needed to
be successful in school.
A young woman in counseling services was about to
have her first child and mentioned to her counselor
that she had no one to help her, let alone throw her a
Lena Pope Heroes – Helping a family in need.
A
fter 20 years in an abusive marriage,
Chris, an experienced
Isabel* mustered up all the courage she
Lena Pope family
had, grabbed her 10-year-old son and
counselor, noticed
12-year-old daughter, and packed her car. It was a
a
new
name
long drive from Arizona, but Isabel was not going to
her
stop until she was safely parked at a domestic violence
looked forward to
shelter in El Paso. She tried to escape before, but he
getting
always found them. This time had to be different.
with
calendar
to
the
on
and
work
young
child. “My client is a
baby shower to supply even the most basic necessities.
Due to circumstances beyond her control, she was on
Isabel was a child bride, sold to her husband at the
precious child who
her own.
young age of 13 without anything to call her own.
had just escaped to the area with his family with just
This could be a story ripped from the world news
the clothes on their backs,” Chris said. “After just one
headlines of today, but instead this is a story that
meeting, I knew this was a very special family.”
Donors choose to get involved every day by supplying
the resources necessary for Lena Pope to assist those
most in need. Lena Pope is proud to be the catalyst that
ended up right here at Lena Pope.
Chris wanted to help Isabel and her family set up a
transforms generosity into answers for families. It is
home. They were renting a small apartment, but were
only due to the thoughtfulness of donors that those in
need have a place to turn to help them move forward
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