You Turned Her Crisis Around
How you helped Mahogany and her four children break the cycle of poverty . . .
“I didn’t know what I was going to do.” Mahogany’s words are the story of too many Tampa Bay area families. One unexpected crisis was all it took to steal her stability . . . and hope.
“Everything seemed okay,” says Mahogany. She was working at McDonald’s as a manager, living with her mom, and helping to cover the bills. “But then, my mom got sick.”
With her mom battling prolonged sickness, Mahogany didn’t have any other family to help care for her four children. And affording daycare for all of them was out of the picture. “I found myself calling out of work a lot,” Mahogany says. “I tried to hold on to my job as long as I possibly could, taking my kids to work with me . . .
“. . . but I had to quit.”
The single mother felt helpless. She didn’t want to rely on her mother for housing and help forever. Mahogany longed for lasting stability — but it always felt just out of reach.
But then, a phone call changed everything.
“After I quit my job, I started praying and praying,” says Mahogany. “The very next day, I got a call. Metro said, ‘We have an opening for you right now!’”
ACHIEVING WHAT SHE NEVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE
Mahogany says from the moment she set foot on Metro’s campus with her children, she could feel the “genuine support from everybody.”
Because you give, Mahogany and her family didn’t fall through the cracks. Instead, they were lifted up with unwavering support and services that break the cycle of poverty before it starts.
As Mahogany considered her next steps, she knew she wanted to complete her GED. “But I didn’t know if I could accomplish anything else,” she says. “All I knew for so long was McDonald’s.”
Mahogany unlocked her untapped potential and achieved more than just a high school diploma . . .
“Today, I’m a registered medical assistant and certified phlebotomist,” she says through happy tears.
“I’m confident now. I feel like I can contribute more to society. I’m not a nobody.”
Your partnership equips single parents like Mahogany to achieve what they never thought possible — a thriving life free from the burden of hunger and homelessness.
“Thank you so much for believing in me — for not letting me settle for less,” says Mahogany. “I accomplished things I never thought I could.
Thank you so much, Metro Ministries, for giving us a chance to succeed in life.”
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