My Story

The Most Powerful Benefit I have ever worked on !!!
Hi My name is Kymberly Anne and I have been working with benefits and causes for about 25 years. I started way back when I was about 15 doing things with my church. You know, collecting canned goods and sorting threw donation bags putting them in different sizes and ages stacking them on the storage room shelves getting packages ready for when the needing folks could come get stuff, going on mission trips & things like that. Then as I got older I would always donate to homeless foundations or buy an angel off the tree at the mall during xmas time. Going down to the shelters at thanksgiving and serving up food for the people who would come. Then one day……
Stay tuned for the rest of the story Its 2 am and I cant keep my eyes open

The rest of the story……
Okay I am back Time to finish the story then on to building my blog !
Now I guess I must have been really tired when I started writing the story because I left out some of the details. First I should let you know that WHEN I was 15 and doing things with my church and buying angels off the tree I TOO was homeless. I have been on my own since I was 12 years old. When I first left home I had enough money to get a weekly rental hotel (kitchette they called it) on this horrible street called Van Buran in Phoenix , Arizona. It was where ALL the bad things in town were. My neighbors were all alcoholics, drug dealers, working girls, and drug additcts. Yes I can only tell you the things I saw and heard on a nightly basis outside my room as I laid in my bed scared to death. Well living there was how I met the folks at the church. I had run out of money and the nice gay lady that lived in the room next to me told me I needed to go to this church up the street that they would help me that this was no place for a me to be !!
Okay so now I can finish the story now that you know a little back ground.
So I was helping out at all the homeless places at first to give back for helping ME !! THEN ONE DAY….I saw that they had put a big gate up around one of the old broken down hotels that were out on Van Buran and they had all kinds of construction people over there tearing stuff out of the rooms and it looked like they were closing it down. So I went over there to find out if I could help and make some money. Ended up that a pastor from another church in the area had bought that broken down hotel to turn into a place to help folks get back on their feet and start a life for themselves. WOW I thought that was a GREAT idea !!!! I asked could I please meet that pastor because I KNEW that someway, somehow this was going to change my life. Well it did. Pastor W took me under his wing and let me work there every day cleaning up scrap and giving me ten dollars a day . He also hooked me up with a really nice family from the church that let me stay in their house.
As soon as the place was done being renovated I got one of the rooms at this place and thus was the beginnning of my new life.

The new life ….
Okay …. So I learned alot of things while I was at this place. This establishment took families or just a single man or women in and put them on a program. We all had to get up in the morning and go to the breakfast room to eat . They had a daycare on grounds so all the children would go there while the moms and dads and other folks like me would go to different places.
Some people would need help with a nice outfit to go get a job, some people needed job SKILLS , some folks needed to get even a GED, alot of the people there needed serious counseling about all sorts of different things but no matter what those people needed to start themselves a life no matter how they ended up homeless in the first place they had a program to help.
Alot of the folks went to a rehab for thirty days while their children were taken care of by folks from the church . Well I think you have the picture now let me tell you what happened to ME. The first thing I did was volunteer for as many things as I could without having to do any of the programs because I knew when I went to the first class they sent me to I was in a little bit of trouble !!! Yes being 5’9 at such a young age ( now 13) was great for lying about your age but when they asked me to fill out paperwork so I could order my birth certificate and social security card so that I COULD get a job I knew that I was in trouble. I thought that they would either return me to home or send me to a jail or somthing so I had to think quick….
Well, I made it a couple weeks before they finally got on me about filling out the paperwork , meanwhile I was learning as much as I could about the world from the other people that were there to find out how they were getting jobs and what they had to do. Well looked like no matter what I was not going to be able to get around this situation !!! Well I dont want to bore you with all the gushy details there is a reason I told you about this place in the first place……
You will see later…
Needless to say I ran away again and ended up staying with with different folks on and off doing crazy stuff along the way.
I ended up opening up to this family one day and telling them exactly how old I was and why I ran away from home in the first place and thank god that they understood and they helped me. They helped me get emancipated.
For those who do not know what that is I had to go to court and prove that I could survive on my own and I legally became of age. Even though I was only 14 at the time… I was legally 18. So NOW I could go get a job and start my life.
Dont want to make this a long drawn out story as someday I will be writing a book about my life and you can read it there : )
I just wanted to set the base for folks to understand and know why it is that I am so passionate about  charity and what it is I do now.
So now let me show you a little about me and my life now in this new blog I am writting and then on to telling you about the greatest project I have ever had the pleasure of working on !!!!  RAISING A BILLION DOLLARS FOR CHARITY : ) The End result : My dream is to buy an apartment Complex or an old broken down hotel and turn it into a place like Pastor W had and give back to the world what it has given to ME. So thats it folks come raise a Billion dollars with me and lets get these children off the streets and sent in the right direction . So they to may have a safe life. Thank you for taking the time to read a little about me and what my dreams are.

God Bless

Kymberly