We are a team dedicated to helping Shellv Candler and her mother move from transitional housing to more permanent housing.   The funds will be used to provide permanent housing  and will allow Shellv to complete her educational goals and graduate from Cal State, Long Beach. 

Candler and her mother stay in a transitional home in north Long Beach, which they found after their time was up at the shelter. The two cram into a room smaller than most walk-in closets. She sleeps on the top bunk for $250, her mother on the bottom for $300.  A third roommate lives an arm’s width away.

Candler squeezes in three jobs between classes to support herself and her mother, who’s been out of work since she had surgery to replace a femur with a metal rod and was put on disability because of an adrenal gland hemorrhage.

The bills add up. The beds eat up one whole paycheck, and $187 a month in food stamps stretches only so far. Then there’s about $4,000 a semester for tuition and books, and doctor visits that Candler insists on attending so she understands which medicines to give her mother.

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