Update June 18, 2009: Favor Whitesides and her family are now living in an apartment in Sacramento near the river. Favor just graduated from the Women's Empowerment career training program.

The Oprah Winfrey Show asked Loaves & Fishes if they could interview one of the homeless mothers at our Maryhouse program. Favor Whitesides, a very devoted mother of three bright and beautiful children, agreed to share her story which aired on February 25th, 2009 (re-aired on June 18), titled "Tent Cities in America: A Lisa Ling Special Report", on the Oprah show.

Sadly, Favor and her family are not alone! There are countless families on the streets or on the verge of homelessness. Entire families are falling through the cracks. Homeless shelters in Sacramento are forced to turn away over 200 women and children a day due to lack of space.

Here at Loaves & Fishes we provide a safe place, practical services and one-on-one counseling for homeless women and mothers at our Maryhouse program. The children attend our Mustard Seed School.

When a family falls through the ever widening cracks in our system and turns to Loaves & Fishes for help; they are lost and confused. We welcome them, embrace them, and work hard to reassure them and help them regain a home for themselves and their children.

We can't do this alone! We need your help to keep our door open to the homeless and hungry. We need your help to keep welcoming lost families out of the cold and into a warm dry place. Please, for the sake of Favor Whitesides and all the other homeless and soon to be homeless families, consider donating online and help the neediest of all.