Client Stories
Genuine Gratitude Means Giving Back
Lesly
Some people walk away from a helping hand. Others clasp it, then reach out to someone else with the other! Lesly is a giver!
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. ~ Audrey Hepburn
Some people walk away from a helping hand. Others clasp it, then reach out to someone else with the other! Lesly is a giver!
 “When I realized I had to enter a shelter, I was nervous and uncomfortable, but it was a great experience. I’ve grown spiritually,” said Lesly Jackson, a former Room at the Inn client. Lesly entered the shelter in November 2005 and stayed for four months. Today, she is independent, with her own apartment. She also serves on the program board of Room at the Inn. “I have a great deal of respect for the homeless now and for people who work in the shelter,” she says.
Lesly’s stay at Room at the Inn was longer than most, in part because she was “working her plan” and getting close to attaining permanent housing. “They assisted me with resources to help me get back on my feet,” she said. Lesly completed a six-week housing class to obtain a Section 8 voucher, which helped her into her first apartment upon leaving the shelter. Room at the Inn also helped Lesly pay her past utility bills – a common hurdle to finding a new place to live. The bills were paid through the shelter’s homelessness prevention program. Lesly also notes that Room at the Inn got her to a health clinic and helped her with medications.
Lesly is working, financially stable and moving forward with her life. She serves on Room at the Inn’s program board because “it gives me an opportunity to give back and be of service.” She wants to be able to help others the way Room at the Inn helped her.
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