Haven for Hope president and CEO Kim Jefferies reflects on a year with San Antonio’s largest homeless shelter and services campus.
Sarah Smith enjoys dinner with her daughter, Joleah, 3, at the Haven for Hope campus annual Ho Ho Hope for the Holidays celebration in December 2020.Although I was born and raised in San Antonio and have lived here for the past 48 years, it wasn’t until the last year that I really got to know my city. I’ve known the rich history and culture and the big, small-town feel all my life, but I didn’t know the depth and breadth of the need of my fellow San Antonians on any given day.
Like many of you, I would see the guy panhandling on the corner and those walking the streets of downtown and think of them as the faces of homelessness. Boy, was I off base. What I learned was that the true faces of homelessness are faces just like mine. It’s these faces and so many more that walk the campus of Haven for Hope every day. Their faces are just like mine and yours but with different trauma, different experiences, and different support networks. Their faces are ours, just under different circumstances. People don’t choose to be homeless. Rather homelessness is a result of trauma in their lives.
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