Harriet lost everything to addiction and believed no one cared if she lived or died . . . but this Easter, Harriet’s heart is filled with HOPE!
“I was 10 years old when my mother introduced me to alcohol, and I was 20 years old when my sister introduced me to crack,” Harriet says. “I would be fine until things didn’t go the way I wanted them to go, then I would end up drinking and drugging again.”
Harriet can’t wait to get back to work. “I’ve driven snowplows and dump trucks, garbage trucks, buses,” she says. “I am a good worker. So, once I get done with this program at DRMM, I may be able to go back to driving. I’m praying everything works out.”
But the most important thing to Harriet is her family. “I lost relationships with my kids. We would start to mend, but I would go back to drinking, and that would destroy everything all over again. The last thing they want their mom to do is to go back to drinking, end up homeless . . . back in the same place I was.”
This Easter, Harriet has hope in her heart thanks to the loving care she found when she came in off our city streets. She has a heartfelt message to every friend who supports the lifesaving, life-changing work of the Mission: “I would like to tell DRMM’s donors thank you. Thank you for giving us back the hopes and dreams that we lost.”
“The work that the people do here at DRMM is just fantastic. By the time it’s all over, everybody is smiling, and we have a new outlook on life.”
