A house fire, then COVID-19: For a family in crisis, a community aid worker becomes ‘like a mother’
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/29/a-house-fire-then-covid-19-for-a-family-in-crisis-a-community-aid-worker-becomes-like-a-mother/
When Belkin Yojana Vasquez lost her Sunnyvale apartment in a November 2019 fire, the pregnant mother of four had no idea what the family was going to do, or even where they would sleep that first night.
Then a police officer connected her with Sunnyvale Community Services — a nonprofit that helped pay for rooms at hotels for her and some of the other 51 residents, including 20 children, who also lost everything in the 11-unit complex fire. Vasquez and her kids stayed at the hotel for a few weeks until SCS helped her move into a two-bedroom apartment in Santa Clara.