Any of you near Arizona State might want to get in on this one:
Hundreds of runners and walkers will gather on Sunday, March 29, at Arizona State University’s West campus for the inaugural “5K Walk-n-Run for Success.” Proceeds from the event will benefit Helping Hands for Single Moms, an award-winning Valley-based nonprofit organization.
For more information about the event or the organization, please visit www.helpsinglemoms.org. Considering this horrific roundup of children in Arizona who are having — and then abandoning — children, I do hope this run is a success.
There’s a pretty incredible story in the New York Times about a single mother who just never gave up, though she was a foundling who churned through the foster care system, spent years in a shelter hiding from an abusive partner, and watched the apartment she worked so hard to secure burn down, with all their memories inside. She’s back on her feet yet again, and now, Gloria Garcia is hoping to adopt an older child from the foster care system, to augment her little family of two, and give another kid the advantage of her love and determination.
I guess I live with blinders on here at SoloMother. I assume folks are single mothers because they are mature women who have either chosen a single mother path from the beginning or found themselves on that path due to loss by death or divorce.
If anyone out there has good resources for young single mothers, shoot them my way and I’ll make a page with them. In these uncertain financial times, I worry about our youngest mothers.