California Faith-Based Organization Helps Homeless Women and Children Get Back on Their Feet

A faith-based charity in California is getting homeless women and children off the streets one tiny house at a time. 

In recent years charities across the nation have been creating tiny home communities for all types of people to meet their needs. While there are tiny home communities in the east for homeless veterans, on the West, a faith-based organization called Acres of Hope has created a tiny home community for homeless women and children. 

According to Faithwire, Acres of Hope works to provide women and children, 92 percent of whom are domestic or sexual abuse survivors, with physical, psychological and spiritual aid.

“People need to have their basic needs met, obviously. They need to have food, clothing, shelter. But that’s not going to transform them,” the organization’s executive director Lisa Risdal, told Faithwire. “That’s not going to equip them to be able to support themselves and their children. It’s not gonna equip them to succeed or even become a loving and nurturing mom.”

While the charity does put women and children up in tiny homes for up to two years to provide them with a place to live, the organization is interested in so much more than that. Acres of Hope is interested in transforming people’s lives through Christ and providing them with job and life skills training so that they can succeed once they…