Residents' Stories

Nearly forty families, including more than 70 children, have participated in the Sinai House Program. Some residents have made us especially proud.
Ms. X was working in a dead-end job with all-night hours, heavily in debt, and shuffling her babies from one unreliable relative to the next. Sinai House provided her with the opportunity to train for a higher paying and more stable job. After she completed the training, she worked for a year as an office manager. She subsequently pursued a position with a local bank. Today she is a credit officer with a major branch of the bank and she been advised she may be promoted to branch manager. Her young children are flourishing, and Ms. X has purchased her own home.

Ms. Y worked as a saleswoman in an ethnic goods store and wanted to develop her own designs for sale. While at Sinai House, she attended classes at the Women's Business Center, where she learned the fundamentals of accounting, marketing, and business planning. She also took classes at a local fabric store, and Sinai House bought her a commercial sewing machine. Soon she was designing and crafting enough clothing to take it on the road to fairs and trade shows across the country. She carved out a place for her own business at an ethnic goods store and set up a mini shop. We encouraged her son to attend a community college and helped to cover his tuition and tutoring. He worked part-time while at school, dropped out, and started a full-time job in retail sales, with benefits. Soon, he realized the value of the advanced education, and went back to college at his own expense. Ms. Y and her son left Sinai House and moved into an apartment, paying market rates.