Last Saturday morning, twelve families came to Harbor Point Church for our legal clinic with Community Council. Seven of them left having started the process of putting their home in a living trust, in Spanish.
Legal language is already hard to understand. Add a language barrier on top of it, and most families never start. They assume this kind of planning isn't for them.
On Saturday, seven families sat down with a volunteer attorney, in their own language, and took the first real step toward protecting the home they worked so hard for.
And for us, that’s what dignity looks like: making sure families understand what's in front of them and have a say in their own future.
That's what community looks like: a nearby church opening its doors because someone trusted us enough to say yes.
And that's what equity looks like: bringing the help nearer so families don't have to find their way to an office across the county.
Events like these happen because we get through the unglamorous stuff behind it. The emails. The table counts. The venue that fell through twice before Harbor Point said yes.
Dorothy Day once wrote, "People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time."
Twelve families. One room. One Saturday.
Miriam Zuñiga
Adult Program Director
