{"id":1025,"date":"2010-02-04T22:43:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T06:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2010-02-04T22:43:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T06:43:23","slug":"motor-home-housing-launch-huge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Motor Home Housing Launch Huge Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1026\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1026\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1026\" title=\"group-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/group-photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"group-photo\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R Ed, Mikey, Bob, Maria, Victoria &amp; Connor<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wow! What an amazing day we had at the launch of our new Motor Home Housing Program. This past Saturday, January 30 we awarded a motor home to Maria Pollack and her son Mikey at a ceremony hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regalogift.com\/index.html\">Regalo Virgin Olive Oil<\/a>. Representatives from three local newspapers covered the event as well as the local access TV station. (<strong>See links to stories below<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>Maria and her son were overjoyed when they saw the motor home; tears rolled down her face as she expressed her gratitude to everyone involved. Ed and Connie Bermudez donated the RV a few weeks ago. Ed wanted it to go to a homeless family. It was his generosity that started the program.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Stratton is Maria&#8217;s friend and sponsor. Victoria volunteers with Casa Esperanza homeless shelter in Santa Barbara where she heard about our program. She contacted me and told me about Maria and her son Mikey. Like many homeless people, Maria is employed but doesn&#8217;t earn enough money to rent an apartment or even buy a car. Maria met Victoria at church a year or so ago and they became friends. In addition to connecting Maria with our program, Victoria is providing a private parking place for the motor home on her property.<\/p>\n<p>More families have contacted us who want to participate in this program. We are looking for more late model motor homes in good shape and people to help us give them a second life.\u00a0 We are also need places to store the RV&#8217;s temporarily while we get them ready to distribute to homeless families. If you can help, please call our toll free message line at <strong>877-827-2012<\/strong> or email us at<strong> heartsoffire@ureach.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Media Links<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2010\/jan\/30\/charity-gives-homeless-family-an-rv-to-live-in\/\">Ventura County Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcreporter.com\/cms\/story\/detail\/nonprofit_takes_wheel_of_rv_donations_to_homeless\/7603\/\">Ventura County Reporter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/10026320\">Video<\/a> (courtesy of <em>Barrett Productions<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! What an amazing day we had at the launch of our new Motor Home Housing Program. This past Saturday, January 30 we awarded a motor home to Maria Pollack and her son Mikey at a ceremony hosted by Regalo Virgin Olive Oil. Representatives from three local newspapers covered the event as well as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[19,26,27,36,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartsoffireproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}