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In spite of COVID-19 pandemic challenges, first-gen college-going scholarship winners adapt and thriveGoing to college as a first generation college-goer can feel like an uphill climb. Pile on coronavirus pandemic challenges like heightened anxiety, distance learning and sheltering in place, |
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Former resident’s path to homeownership began at DeAnza GardensOakley, CA, February 2021 – Chad was raised by a single mother at DeAnza Gardens, an EAH Housing community in Bay Point, Calif. Starting in high school and |
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Seniors bust a move at Bella Terra’s weekly balcony dance partiesThe joyous lyrics of “YMCA” rang out across Bella Terra, an EAH Housing community in Morgan Hill, Calif., as two EAH staff members shook jumbo-sized letter cards spelling |
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Coronavirus pandemic turns EAH Housing food partnerships into grocery lifelinesFood for low-income seniors and families — from on-site grocery pantries and senior brown bag lunches to partnerships with community gardens, markets and food banks — has always |
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Adoptive Honolulu family of five given needed gifts by Oahu’s Adopt-A-Family programHonolulu, HI, May 2020 – Five years ago, Ken and Royalnette’s lives changed for the worse. Ken’s decades-old hip injury flared up, forcing him to stop working as night |
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Markham Plaza resident, once homeless, says volunteering helps her stay stableSan Jose, CA, March 2020 – “I told State Senator Jim Beall how it was to be on the streets,” says Rosie, who was homeless for three years |
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Grad student and family considered home in parking lot before finding haven in Morgan HillMorgan Hill, CA, August 2019 – In 2018, a young graduate student named Christian needed affordable housing in Santa Clara County but was coming up empty. He had |
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Maui grandmother sacrifices finances to take over care of 3 of her grandchildrenKahului, Hawaiʻi, May 2019 – A few years ago, Cheyenne, a Honolulu native and single mother now living on Maui, took over care of three of her six grandchildren. |
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Kukui Tower computer lab class was first step to EAH scholarship winner’s career at IBMPoughkeepsie, New York, February 2019 – Weon grew up at Kukui Tower, an EAH Housing community in Honolulu, where he first encountered computers in Kukui’s computer lab. He was |
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Former EAH Housing resident steps up to donate shoes to Stonebridge kidsSt. Helena, California, January 2019 — Tony was 7 when he and his family moved to Stonebridge, an EAH Housing community in the wine country town of St. |
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Resident inspired to pursue career at EAH Housing after growing up in EAH communityMorgan Hill, California, November 2018 – Adilene, an EAH Housing resource coordinator, knows better than anyone the value of stable housing in an EAH community. That’s because she grew up |
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UC Riverside student finds support amid family and housing hardshipsRiverside, California, September 2018 – Life was tough during Jezel’s last year of high school; her six older siblings had left home, and she and her mother were living in |
