‘Just in Time for Foster Youth’s’ Simone Hidds-Monroe lost her will to speak when her mother died when she was 13-years old. Source: San Diego woman becomes fierce advocate for ‘Foster Youth’
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Local restaurateur’s nonprofit wages battle against cancer
Maria Fundora’s family has always displayed a fighting spirit. Her father was so determined to come to America in the 1960s that he risked making the trip from Cuba in a small motorboat with three other men and only the clothes on his back. Reunited with his family four years later, he and his wife…
Woman born with rare condition ‘pretends to be celebrity’ to deal with people staring
A young woman pretends she’s a celebrity when walking down the street to help deal with people staring at her due to her visible facial difference. Hannah Ross, 20, was diagnosed with Goldenhar syndrome from birth, a rare congenital condition that affects the development of the eye, ear and spine. It meant growing up had…
Once a mother experiencing homeless, local woman gives back to Pinellas nonprofit that helped her
Jonita Lewis was once living at Grace House while pregnant with one child and trying to raise another, but they helped her get back on her feet. Now, she’s back to help families living there in her new career with Hope Villages of America. A Tampa Bay woman is retracing her roots back to when…
Woman runs nonprofit senior pet sanctuary out of her Rockville home
Leashes End, a nonprofit pet rescue and sanctuary, provides older pets with a comfortable place to spend their final days “Let’s go for a walk!” says Risa Simon, clapping her hands and prompting seven dogs, including Buddha, a 20-year-old Chihuahua mix, and Olive, a one-eyed Shih Tzu, to perk up and follow her out the front…