Lived Experiences

My name is Diana. I am 36 years old and I have a crippling disease called Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA), which eats my joints, since I was 3 years old. I’ve been hospitalized and had more surgeries than I can even count in my lifetime...

About 16 months ago I struggled with a drug addiction that I thought I could never overcome. It was killing me. It broke me away from my children and my family, who meant the world to me...

Both [my wife] Deni and I have been gainfully employed all our lives, raised 6 great kids, while Deni was a very successful Realtor in Washington and California, myself a construction project manager...

We had a woman with three children come into shelter. Her husband was actively looking for her and making false accusations about her to CPS. This had been an arranged marriage and abusive for many years...

Retired aviation technician and teacher Vicki Rode contacted Habitat Snohomish regarding repairs to the roof of her aging Snohomish home. During the great recession, Vicki was laid off from her 25-year technician career...